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Battle of the Thames 



IN WHICH KENTUCKIANS 

DEFEATED THE BRITISH, FRENCH, AND INDIANS, 

OCTOBER 5, 1813 



With a List of the Officers and Privates 
Who Won the Victory 



Colonel BENNETT H. YOUNG 

Member of The Filson Club 




Louisville, Kentucky 

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PREFACE 

IN the year 1780 the battle of King's Mountain was 
won by colonial backwoodsmen in the midst of con- 
ditions not unlike those of 18 13, when Kentuckians won 
the battle of the Thames. The disasters which befell the 
Americans before both of these battles filled the public mind 
with a despondency which hung like a funeral pall over 
sorrowing patriotism. Isaac Shelby, the first and the 
sixth governor of Kentucky, was a leader in both of these 
battles, and the antecedents, the surroundings, and the 
consequences of each of them were as like as his com- 
manding person in both. 

Before the battle of King's Mountain the outlook for 
the Americans, especially in the South, was through thick 
gloom. Gates, with the glory of Saratoga blazing upon 
him, had suffered a disastrous defeat at Camden. Sevier, 
who was supposed to be always upon his guard, was sur- 
prised at Fishing Creek. But worst of all Lincoln, after 
failing to recover Savannah, had lost Charleston at the end 
of a long and distressful siege. Ferguson, the able model 
in the South for the weak Proctor in the North, flushed 



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with British victories over the Americans, was literally 
riding roughshod over the Carolinas and filling his 
regiments with Tories in numbers that threatened to 
overrun the whole country. 

The conditions in the North, and especially in the 
Northwest, were no less discouraging. The Americans 
'■ had held Fort Harrison, Fort Stephenson, and Fort 
; Meigs, but the surrender of Detroit and Mackinac, and 
the massacres at Fort Dearborn, Fort Meigs, and the 
river Raisin had more than eclipsed the glory of all 
other quarters. Proctor, reeking with the blood his 
treachery and brutality had drawn from fallen foes, stood 
forth like a demon incarnate to desolate the land with 
all the horrors of a savage and none of the ameliorations 
of a civilized war. 

The victory of Perry on Lake Erie, like a bright 
morning risen upon a dark night, lighted the way for the 
Americans not only to recover Detroit but to invade 
Canada and strike at the source of the ills that had 
befallen them. The Americans were quick to see the 
advantage of this naval victory and lost not a moment to 
turn it to their full advantage. The thunder of Perry's 
guns upon the water had scarcely died away when the 
tramp of Shelby's regiments on their way to Canada 
was heard upon the land. When they reached Maiden 



Preface v 

they found the enemy had fled, but with the eagerness 
of famished tigers in the pursuit of their prey they fol- 
lowed and overtook them in battle array at a chosen 
point on the river Thames, protected by a precipitous 
bank on their left and by an impassable swamp on their 
right. The strong position chosen by the enemy was at 
once recognized by the Americans, but they were so 
eager to avenge the massacre of their fellow-soldiers that 
they would have attacked them had their numbers been 
twice as great and the fortifications of nature double as 
strong around them. 

The advantages of position were with the enemy at 
the battle of the Thames, as they had been in the battle 
of King's Mountain. The British had in each instance 
the field of their choice. At the Thames the Americans 
had not to point their guns upward as at King's Mountain 
to dislodge the enemy, but had to shoot at them around 
trees and through swamps which would have discouraged 
any other troops. No advantage of position, however, in 
favor of the enemy could have slaked the thirst for battle 
which was consuming every American heart. 

Beside the massacre of their brethren at Fort Dearborn 
and Fort Meigs and the river Raisin, the Americans 
remembered atrocities, barbarities, and oppressions in the 
more distant past which helped to fire their spirit. The 



vi Preface 

conduct of Great Britain against the United States had 
been such for years before as to excite the public mind to 
fever heat. The forcible taking of sailors from our ships 
on the high seas and impressing them into the British 
marine; the blockading of our seaports to the ruin of our 
commerce, and worst of all, the arming, clothing, and 
feeding of savages while they tomahawked and scalped 
our helpless women and children raised public indignation 
to such a height that the sight of an English soldier 
excited a hatred that made every man an avenger. 
Leading men everywhere in the United States reached 
the conclusion that war, though a terrible evil, was a less 
evil than to endure such outrages and oppressions. 

No secret was made of the determination of the people 
that the United States would go to war with England if 
such outrages continued. The matter was openly debated 
in Congress and the newspapers of that day were full of 
fiery articles on the subject, and politicians everywhere 
made inflammatory speeches about it. Even the plan of 
the initial campaign of the war was shadowed forth in the 
proposed conquest of Canada, by the orators and writers 
of the day. Some were opposed to the war, but enough 
were in favor of it to bear down all opposition. War 
against Great Britain was therefore declared by the United 
States, June i8, 1812. 



Preface vii 

The eighteenth publication of the Filson Club is prin- 
cipally concerned with the war that followed this declara- 
tion as it occurred in the Northwest. It was soon evident 
after the declaration that we were not ready for war, 
especially for the campaign in the Northwest. An inade- 
quate number of undisciplined infantry were expected to 
invade Canada and conquer it, without a navy and in spite 
of the armed vessels of the enemy that floated upon the 
lakes and protected Canada. Neither was our army ready 
with ofificers or soldiers, or arms, or supplies. A beginning 
had to be made, however, and when the initial steps were 
taken it was found that the enemy, forewarned by our 
proceedings in Congress, by our newspapers and our 
stump orators, were better prepared for the fight than 
those who had sent the challenge. 

The campaign began by the invasion of Canada by 
Hull on the 12th of July, 181 2. Instead of Hull attacking 
Maiden he spent his time in trying to induce the Canadians 
to come under the American flag and the Indians to keep 
quiet, until he learned that the British were not as idle as 
he was and were about ready to make an attack on him. 
He then crept back to Detroit and there began that dis- 
graceful series of acts which led to the surrender not only 
of his army but of the whole Northwest frontier. His first 
step after returning to Detroit was to get his supplies 



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from tlie river Raisin, where the enemy had blockaded 
them, by sending an inadequate force, which was defeated. 
He then sent a larger force, which after defeating the 
enemy were withdrawn without getting the much-needed 
suppHes. While these unmilitary acts were progressing 
and a third party had been sent to the river Raisin for 
the supplies, General Brock marched his army to Sand- 
wich, planted cannon so as to command Detroit, without 
any interference on the part of Hull, and when ready for 
bombarding demanded and secured the surrender of Hull, 
August 1 6, 1812, without the American general accom- 
plishing anything but to cover himself with everlasting 
disgrace. The fortress of Detroit and the territory of 
Michigan, with a population of live thousand souls and 
one thousand four hundred soldiers, with arms, ammuni- 
tion, and supplies went from Hull to Brock by the 
surrender. 

Previous to the surrender of Detroit, Fort Mackinac 
had been taken by the British, on the 17th of July, 181 2. 
Lieutenant Hanks was in command of the fort, but had 
not been advised of the declaration of war until the enemy 
were upon him. The garrison, consisting of only fifty- 
seven effective men, could do nothing but surrender when 
taken by surprise, as they were, by an overwhelming 
enemy. 



Preface ix 

Hull's order to Captain Heald to evacuate Fort Dear- 
born after distributing the stores to the Indians led to a 
fearful massacre of the occupants of the fort on the 15th 
of August, 181 2. The Indians, who had promised to 
conduct the garrison safely to Detroit, proved to be 
treacherous, and either slaughtered or permitted others 
to slaughter those they had promised and been paid to 
protect. The massacre had all the horrors of Indian 
barbarity in tomahawking and scalping not only soldiers 
but women and children. 

Things had thus gone fearfully wrong in the year 181 2, 
the first year of the war. On the 8th of September, 
however, a small bright spot appeared in the dark sky of 
that period. The Indians attacked Fort Harrison, on the 
Wabash, and set it on fire and seemed to be in the act of 
taking it. But it was heroically defended by Captain 
Taylor and saved. As the year 181 2 ended so the year 
1813 began with a show of favor to the Americans by the 
God of War. The soldiers sent by General Winchester 
to Frenchtown met the British there and defeated them 
January 18, 181 3. The defeat, however, was of short dura- 
tion. On the twenty-second the British were reinforced 
from Maiden and the Americans from Fort Meigs. A 
second battle ensued, in which the Americans were defeated 
with great loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners. On the 



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twenty-third followed such a massacre of the prisoners and 
wounded by the Indians as has seldom occurred in the 
annals of civilized war. 

There was another serious disaster to our arms in the 
year 1813. It occurred at Fort Meigs on the 5th of May, 
and came of Colonel Dudley either not understanding or 
disobeying the orders given to him to take the English 
batteries and then make his way to the fort. Instead of 
doing this he took the batteries and then pursued the 
Indians. In so doing he lost eight hundred men and left 
the enemy's batteries to continue playing upon the fort. 

This bad current of events began to change for the 
better in the second siege of Fort Meigs in May, 181 3. 
It gained strength and flowed stronger in the defense of 
Fort Stephenson August 2d, and yet stronger in the 
victory of Perry on Lake Erie September loth. The 
decisive victory of Perry on the lake removed all obstacles 
in the way of General Harrison to Detroit and into 
Canada, and the battle of the Thames soon followed. 

. This battle of the Thames is the subject of the follow- 
ing pages. It was no big thing compared to armies as 
now organized and brought against one another, but it was 
immense in its influence on the War of 1812. It was like 
the battle of King's Mountain in the Revolutionary War. 
It came at a time when the Americans were full of gloom. 



Preface xi 

It dispelled that gloom and displayed a clear sky to the 
American armies. Cornwallis felt as much despair in the 
death of Ferguson as Harrison felt hope in the flight of 
Proctor. 

It is not always best in a preface to anticipate too 
much of what is said in the text. The story of the Battle 
of the Thames is better told in the text than it can be 
told in an introduction, and it is well to leave the reader 
to learn what is said in the text of the author. He may 
sometimes be thought to color his facts with the hues of 
romance, but if they are thereby made more interesting 
to the reader no harm can come of such a departure from 
cold and naked narrative. Even if he should now and 
then be thought to substitute creations of a vivid imagi- 
nation for dry historic facts, the reader may be benefited 
by the change, whether cold history approve or not. 
Differences of opinion have always existed as to certain 
facts about the battle of the Thames, and they may con- 
tinue to exist after this or any other essay on the subject. 
What battle was ever fought about which all historians 
perfectly agreed? 

One valuable feature of this account of the battle of 
the Thames may be pointed out. It is the appendix, in 
which the names of all the officers and soldiers who took 
part in this battle are given. The descendants of these 



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heroes are now scattered far and wide over the land, and 
they can but be pleased to see the names of their ances- 
tors mentioned in a victory so glorious as that of the 
Thames. These names are given as they appeared in 
their regiments and companies, and the names of the 
privates are alphabetically arranged, so that it is not diffi- 
cult to find any one of them. The numerous illustrations 
are also worthy of mention in this preface. The principal 
persons engaged in the battle are represented by halftone 
likenesses, which are the very best of their kind, and 
worthy of the images they are intended to preserve. 

There will also be found in the appendix a sketch of 
Oliver Hazard Perry, and the names of the Kentuckians 
known to have been with him in the battle of Lake 
Erie. 

R. T. DURRETT, 

President of The Filson Club 



CONTENTS 

CHAPTER PAGE 

Preface iJi 

I Events Which Led to the Battle, i 

II The Material, Organization, and March of the 

Army, 29 

III Johnson's Regiment Joins in Pursuit of the Fly- 

ing Enemy, 52 

IV Arrived at the Battlefield, 67 

V The Battle and the Victory, 75 

VI After the Battle, 94 

VII The End 102 

VIII The Heroes of THE Battle no 

Appendix i99 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



OPPOSITE PAGE 



Colonel Bennett H. Young Frontispiece 

Mound on battlefield of the Thames 8 

Thames River, looking south from mound i6 

Tree on bank of Thames River, near battlefield 24 

Thames River, looking south from Longwood Road 32 

General John Poague 38 

The old Tecumseh Hotel, on the Thames battlefield 56 

The battlefield of the Thames 68 

The Hospital Barn 80 

Relics picked up on battlefield of the Thames 96 

Governor Isaac Shelby iio 

General William Henry 116 

General Joseph Desha 118 

General William Henry Harrison 120 

General John Edward King 122 

Governor John Adair 124 

General James Allen 128 

Colonel George Trotter 130 

General David Chiles 132 

William T. Barry, Postmaster-General 134 

J. J. Crittenden 140 

Colonel James Johnson 146 

Colonel Micah Taul 160 

Colonel Joseph McDowell 162 

Major DeVall Payne 170 

General Robert B. McAfee 172 

Tecumseh 180 

Colonel Richard M. Johnson i86 

Colonel James Davidson 190 



The Battle of the Thames 



The Battle of the Thames 



EVENTS WHICH LED TO THE BATTLE 

THE War of 1812 was one of tremendous importance 
to the future development of the United States. 
Although thirty years had elapsed since the decla- 
ration of peace, after the War of the Revolution, the 
relations between England and the United States had 
never been harmonious or fully adjusted. There had 
grown up in England, among many of its leading men, 
the idea that in some way, somehow, at some time, 
the United States would return to their allegiance to 
Great Britain. 

In those days of slow communication the public at 
large were not kept well informed of the conditions of 
public sentiment in the United States, and the England 
of that period could not understand how people who 
spoke the English language and fashioned their laws 
after English jurisprudence could desire any other system 
of government than that then in vogue in England. 

Then, again, the English people were never satisfied 
with the result of the War of Independence ; they never 



2 The Battle of tJie Thames 

believed that they were fairly vanquished in that struggle, 
and there was a strong undercurrent in the English 
nation which, if it did not suggest, at least desired 
another test of arms. That the Colonies would set up a 
permanent government of their own in the Western 
World on their own account did not appear reasonable 
or possible, and, by a majority of the people in Great 
Britain, it was expected that the republic would collapse 
and the American nation again accept British sovereignty. 

England, then relatively the greatest nation on earth, 
felt her power ; she was insolent, rude, and domineering 
toward the United States. The English nation felt that 
they had nothing to lose by a war with the United 
States and would probably gain much ; therefore Amer- 
ican rights were ignored and American protests given no 
consideration whatever. 

Through a long line of mean, petty aggressions, Eng- 
land placed the United States in a position where, to 
maintain even a semblance of national self-respect, war 
became necessary. 

Under Mr. Jefferson's administration vessels had been 
taken and wrongs had been suffered because the national 
and commercial conditions of America were such that 
Mr. Jefferson's party thought the taking of vessels the 
lesser of evils. 



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Many of the American people thought the conduct of 
the administration at Washington was pusillanimous ; 
especially in the Southern and Southwestern States public 
spirit had long before demanded an appeal to arms as 
the only vindication of American nationality. 

On the first of June, 18 12, James Madison, President 
of the United States, had presented a manifesto to the 
Senate and House of Representatives, communicating 
certain doctrines and making suggestions, and, in effect, 
advising a declaration of war. In this manifesto Mr. 
Madison says : 

We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain, a state of 
war against the United States, and on the side of the United 
States a state of peace toward Great Britain. 

Whether the United States shall continue peaceful under 
these progressive usurpations and these accumulating wrongs or, 
opposing force to force in defense of their natural rights, shall 
commit a just cause into the hands of the Almighty disposer of 
events, avoiding all connections which might entangle it in a 
contest of views with other powers, and preserving a constant 
readiness to concur in an honorable re-establishment of peace 
and friendship, is a solemn question which the constitution wisely 
confides to the legislative department of the Government. 

This manifesto was an able and complete presentation 
of the wrongs which England had inflicted upon the 
United States, but in the then divided sentiment in this 



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country as to either the policy or the safety of a decla- 
ration of war, Mr. Madison had gone fully as far as 
political wisdom would admit. 

This message of the President was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Relations, which made its report 
to the House, and resulted, after several days' debate, in 
passing an act declaring war between the United King- 
dom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Dependencies 
thereof and the United States of America and their 
Territories. 

The causes which led up to the war had existed for 
twenty years. England, with a persistence and with a 
spirit of insolence unworthy of a great nation, had ignored 
the rights of the United States, had assumed to be 
mistress of the ocean, and had practically declared that 
the United States had no rights that Great Britain was 
bound to respect. 

For many years British cruisers had held up American 
merchant vessels on the ocean and carried ofl" persons 
sailing under the American flag, claiming that England, 
by reason of the nationality of these sailors, had the 
right to take, capture, and hold them wherever found. 
This course was persisted in without a hearing or inves- 
tigation before a competent tribunal ; the search was 
exercised in a summary, harsh, and cruel manner, and 



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the rights of citizens of the United States or sailors of 
the United States were thus subjected to the will or 
caprice of any commander of any English war-vessel. 

Under pretext of search for these British subjects, 
thousands of American citizens had been taken from 
their country, had been carried on board of English 
ships of war, subjected to the severest discipline, and 
compelled to fight England's battles. 

Against such wrongs and outrages the United States 
had in vain remonstrated and expostulated, and the 
United States had gone so ^^r as to offer to enter into 
an arrangement by which, if there were any British sub- 
jects in American vessels, they might, under proper 
restrictions, be delivered up. 

In addition to this British ships of war had hovered 
along the American coast and harrassed American com- 
merce. They had seized and searched American vessels 
and had in American harbors shed American blood in 
pursuance of these extraordinary and unlawful methods. 

At every opportunity American commerce had been 
plundered on the seas and the staples of America had 
been cut off from all foreign markets. 

England had taken the position that while she was at 
war with France all French allies or countries from which 
the British flag was excluded were subject to the same 



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restrictions as if blockaded, and all vessels trading with 
these ports were subject to English capture and con- 
demnation. This practically meant that England had 
entire domination of all oceans, and that commerce was 
forbidden and every vessel driven from the ocean unless 
sailing under the British flag. 

Under this extraordinary claim many American vessels 
were seized, carried into English ports, and condemned 
as prizes of war, while others were compelled to cease 
their ocean trade, and the commerce of the United States 
was thus substantially destro3'ed. 

To give effect to these demands American ports were 
blockaded and impressments made by British cruisers in 
American waters. 

Again, Great Britain had continued to excite hostility 
among the American Indians against the United States, 
had supplied them with arms and munitions of war, and 
had openly and constantly encouraged savage assaults on 
the American frontier. It was also proven that England 
had sent agents secretly into the United States to disrupt 
the United States and to endeavor to have States secede 
from the Union while the two countries were negotiating 
an adjustment of their differences. 

The American public mind had now become so fixed 
in its determination to resist English aggressions and 



The Battle of the Thames 7 

wrongs that it would have been extremely difficult to 
longer restrain it. Therefore the Committee on Foreign 
Relations closed its report with these thrilling words : 

Your Committee, believing that the freeborn sons of America 
are worthy to enjoy the liberty that their fathers purchased at 
the price of so much blood and treasure, and seeing in the 
measures adopted by Great Britain a course commenced and 
persisted in which might lead to the loss of national life and 
independence, feel no hesitation in advising resistance by force, 
in which the Americans of the present day will prove to the 
enemy and the world that they have not only inherited that 
liberty which our fathers gave us, but also the will and power 
to maintain it. Relying on the patriotism of the nation and 
confidently trusting that the Lord of Hosts will go with us to 
battle in a righteous cause and crown our efforts with success, 
your Committee recommend an appeal to arms. 

War was declared by this act, passed on the i8th of 
June, 1 81 2, which was immediately approved by the 
President, and on the 19th of June President Madison 
issued a proclamation of war. 

In the Senate the vote stood nineteen for the war and 
thirteen against it, showing a very close division of public 
sentiment on the subject. 

In the House there were ninety-eight yeas and sixty- 
two nays. 

New Hampshire voted three for the war, two against it. 



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Massachusetts, six for the war, eight against it. 

Rhode Island voted two against the war. 

Vermont, three for the war, one against it. 

Connecticut voted seven against the war. 

New York voted three for the war, eleven against it. 

New Jersey, two for the war, four against it. 

Pennsylvania, sixteen for the war, two against it. 

Delaware gave one vote against the war. 

Maryland gave six for the war and three against it. 

Virginia, fourteen for the war, five against it. 

North Carolina, six for the war and three against it. 

South Carolina, eight for the war, none against it. 

Georgia, three for the war, none against. 

Kentucky, five for the war, none against. 

Tennessee, three for the war, none against. 

Ohio, one for the war. 

Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Delaware were solidly 
against the war, while South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, 
Tennessee, and Ohio were solidly for the war. 

No war with so brief a duration was ever marked 
with more disasters or mistakes, and while these mistakes 
were not exclusively confined to the American armies a 
large proportion of them happened on the American side. 
The United States was not prepared for the war, but the 
conduct of England became so insulting and degrading 






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that there was nothing left to do but to fight, and Mr. 
Madison's predecessors had not made that preparation 
which was essential to the preservation of peace or to fit 
the nation for war, when war, which was inevitable, should 
occur. There was no enthusiasm for the war in many 
States of the Union. The narrow margin, both in the 
Senate and House of Representatives, in favor of war 
was an unmistakable indication that the whole country 
was neither willing nor prepared for hostilities. Six 
majority in the Senate and thirty -six majority in the 
House was a very slim vote on which to enter into a 
conflict with a nation like Great Britain ; with , Rhode 
Island, Connecticut, and Delaware soHdly against the 
war, and Massachusetts eight against it, with New York 
eleven against and three for, and New Jersey four against 
and two for. The condition of the public mind was not 
prepared to enter upon a great conflict and fight out a 
great issue with a nation like Great Britain, then con- 
fessedly the most powerful of the world. 

This difference of sentiment hampered American effort 
and destroyed American enthusiasm ; it made the men 
less brave and the generals less confident. With foes in 
front and foes behind no man can often lead an army to 
a great victory. The nation desired peace, the majority 
of those who had fought in the Revolutionary Army still 



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lived. Indian aggressions on the frontier had produced a 
depressing effect, but it is just to say that the States 
hke Tennessee and Kentucky, Georgia and Ohio, which 
would suffer most, were those which were most anxious 
and earnest in their demands for hostilities. The anti- 
war spirit was especially strong in New England. The 
legislatures of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New 
Jersey protested against the war, and the shipping interests 
of Boston hung flags at half-mast expressive of their 
disapproval of what Congress had done. 

It took some months to create real enthusiasm in the 
quarters where it was most needed to give the armies 
of the United States proper backing, and the very 
first results of the war were such as to justify those who 
opposed it with their prophecies of evil. The men 
who were appointed first in military positions were men 
who had been prominent in the Revolutionary War and 
greatly advanced in years. As a result of this, operations 
were slow, the march of forces was timid, and movements 
hesitating. Unfortunately for the United States, General 
William Hull was Governor of the Territory of Michigan. 
No man in the country could have been found less fitted 
for the exigencies or the conditions which were sure to 
arise at one of the most important points of contact 
between the armies of the two countries. 



The Battle of the Thames n 

In the beginning of 1813 the American Army was 
organized in three divisions : First, the Army of the 
North, under General Wade Hampton, which was to act 
in the country around Lake Champlain ; second, the 
Army of the Center, under General Henry Dearborn, 
which was to conduct operations on Lake Ontario and 
the Niagara frontier ; third, the Army of the West, com- 
manded by General Winchester for a short time and 
subsequently by General Harrison. After the defeat at 
the River Raisin General Harrison located himself at the 
Maumee Rapids, fifteen miles from Lake Erie, in what 
is now known as Perrysburg, in Wood County, Ohio. 
General Proctor had besieged these forces, and on the 
5th day of May occurred the disaster in which Colonel 
Dudley and the troops led by him were captured and so 
many Kentuckians massacred, but the Americans now 
returned to their old way of fighting, and Proctor was 
driven off. In July the siege was again renewed, with no 
better results. The Americans maintained themselves 
with gallantry and courage, and George Crogham, a mere 
youth, on August 2d, with one hundred and sixty men, 
inflicted a tremendous loss upon the British troops and 
held Fort Stephenson in such a way as not only to make 
him a hero, but to encourage the American soldiers in 
subsequent conflicts. 



12 The Battle of the Thames 

The capture of York, now Toronto, in April, the activ- 
ity under Generals Dearborn and Pike, and the defense 
of Sackett's Harbor, again gave encouragement; but these 
were offset in turn by disasters on Lake Ontario and 
the defeats at Stony Creek and Beaver Dams. Thus a 
year of war left the Americans without a signal victory 
on land, and practically nothing to compensate for the 
loss of life and property which twelve months of conflict 
had brought to the nation. The dreadful massacre at 
Fort Dearborn on August 15th, the cowardly surrender of 
Detroit on the i6th, the savage atrocities at the Raisin, 
and the fearful loss at Fort Meigs, coupled with the 
reverses at different points in the North and East, had 
impressed upon the minds of all the American people 
that the war was a real one, in which reverses and failures 
would demand patriotic sacrifice and a united and earnest 
effort to place the United States upon a real war footing. 

When the war began there was not a single war-vessel 
on Lake Erie. The small sloop "Adams" was surrendered 
by Hull, but this was recaptured and burned by Captain 
Evans off Fort Erie. This was followed by the battle 
of Queenstown, November 13, 181 2, brilliant and glorious 
because of the courage and gallantry of the American 
volunteers; all of this, however, was offset by the sur- 
render of Scott to the American troops, who had made 



The Battle of the Thames 13 

so brilliant a record, which was quickly dimmed by the 
failure of General Van Rensalaer to support his fellow- 
countrymen. 

Disasters on land were offset by superb successes on 
the sea. England then had a thousand war-vessels, 
manned by one hundred and forty thousand seamen, while 
the American vessels numbered seventeen men of war, 
and could carry only four hundred and forty-two guns, 
with five thousand seamen. 

First came the conflict of the ' ' President " with the 
"Little Belt," and then the subsequent conflict of the 
"President" with the "Belvedere;" then the capture of 
the British vessel "Minerva" and its soldiers by the 
"Essex" and the capture of the "Guerriere" by the 
"Constitution;" then the brilliant pursuit of the "Frolic" 
by the "Wasp," the capture of the "Swallow" by the 
"United States," and then the capture of the "Macedonia" 
by the " United States," and lastly that of the "Java" by 
the "Constitution." 

The American navy in a year had six encounters, and 
in each one scored a victory. Three hundred British 
merchantmen had been captured in six months, either by 
the navy or by American privateers, and everywhere on 
the water the courage and gallantry of the American 
sailors were more than a match for their English enemy. 



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The Battle of the Thames 



The year 1813 had dawned in disaster and massacre. 
The temporary success at Frenchtown, on the 19th of 
January, was sadly counterbalanced by the horrors of the 
Raisin on the 2 2d. As the battle of the Raisin had 
much to do in aflfecting the spirit and temper of the men 
engaged in the battle of the Thames, a brief account of 
it will be necessary to a complete understanding of the 
conditions which surrounded those engaged in it. 

When the express, which was then sent through the 
wilderness from Detroit to Cincinnati, brought an account 
of the surrender of Detroit by General Hull, August 15, 
1812, there seemed to be a universal outburst of patriotic 
sentiment among the people of Kentucky. Their con- 
tinued conflict with Indians from the cessation of hostili- 
ties through the peace which followed the Revolutionary 
War had kept alive a military spirit as well as military 
organizations. Their sufferings and their services in 
behalf of their country had given them the highest order 
of patriotism. 

In the hearts of all the people of Kentucky burned 
an intense desire to wipe out in some great victory the 
stain which had been placed upon national courage by 
the base surrender of General Hull. 

General Harrison, then Governor of the territory of 
Indiana, had been authorized to take command of the 



The Battle of the Thames 15 

troops in the Indiana and Illinois territories to carry on 
the war in that section against the Indians, and also to 
call on the Governor of Kentucky for any portion of its 
contingent of volunteers which was not in service. 

In May, 181 2, the Governor of Kentucky had organ- 
ized ten regiments, amounting to five thousand five hun- 
dred, as the quota of Kentucky under the one hundred 
thousand militia call made by the United States. More 
than enough volunteers had promptly come forward to 
meet the demands of the Governor, and, under requisi- 
tions made by the War Department, the regiments of 
John M. Scott, William Lewis, and John Allen were 
ordered into the service. They were required to ren- 
dezvous at Georgetown, in Scott County, on the 15th 
of August, 181 2, and were placed under command of 
Brigadier-General John Payne, of Scott County. 

The best men in the State promptly offered their 
services to their country. Members of Congress, county 
officers, majors, colonels, and captains of militia, all has- 
tened, if required, to take the place of privates in the 
ranks. Men who had fought in the War of the Revolu- 
tion, or later under Wayne, Harrison, St. Clair, and Clark, 
esteemed it a privilege to again assert their country's honor, 
and rushed to its defense. Rank was unhesitatingly 
waived, and the impulse to volunteer was almost universal. 



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The Battle of the Thames 



While these troops were assembled at Georgetown and 
were listening to an address from Henry Clay, Hull, at 
Detroit, was surrendering the soldiers of his country and 
his post in the most cowardly manner to their British foes. 

Who should command these troops was a question of 
much moment to the Kentucky soldiers. Governor Scott 
would shortly turn over his office to Shelby, who was for 
the second time to be Governor of the Commonwealth. 
It had been suggested that General William Henry 
Harrison be made Major-General by the Governor of 
Kentucky, but the difficulty was, Harrison was not a 
citizen of Kentucky, and the laws did not sanction the 
appointment of a non-resident as a militia officer of the 
State, and besides a Major-General had already been 
appointed for the detached militia, which was all that 
was allowed under the law. 

At this juncture a caucus was called, composed of 
Governor Shelby, Henry Clay, Thomas Todd, Judge of 
the Federal Court, and other distinguished Kentuckians, 
and they unanimously resolved to advise Governor Scott 
to appoint General Harrison as Major-General of the 
Kentucky Militia, and authorize him to take command of 
the troops now about to march for Detroit. Governor 
Scott made the appointment, and in a very short time 
Kentucky sent seven thousand of her citizens into the field. 



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Among the troops that went forward from Kentucky 
were the regiments of Lieutenant- Colonel WiUiam Lewis, 
composed largely of Central Kentucky Volunteers, from 
Fayette, Jessamine, Clark, and Scott ; and that of Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel John Allen, known as the First Rifle 
Regiment of Kentucky. They had been the first of 
Kentucky's troops to enter the service, having been 
enlisted August 15, 181 2, to serve until October 14, 
1 81 2. These regiments were composed in large part of 
the crack militia companies of Central Kentucky. They 
were with General Winchester at the Rapids of the 
Maumee ; their time had been extended from two to 
six months. They had borne with the greatest heroism, 
in the most splendid manner, the privations and diffi- 
culties which attended the winter campaign of 181 2-1 3. 
As their time would expire in February, it was necessary, 
if a forward movement was to be made by these troops, 
that it should be made promptly. 

General Winchester and his command were at this 
time at the Rapids of the Maumee, now called Maumee 
City. On the morning of the 17th of January, 1813, 
General Winchester had directed Colonel Lewis to march 
with five hundred and fifty men to the River Raisin, 
about forty miles distant. A few hours afterward, he 
was followed by Colonel John Allen with one hundred 



J 3 The Battle of the Thames 

and ten men, who came up with Lewis on the evening 
of the 17th, at Presque Isle. Lewis remained all night 
at this point, and set out very early in the morning to 
reach Frenchtown, about six miles farther up the lake, 
thus bringing him within eighteen miles of Maiden, where 
the British troops had established their headquarters and 
were supposed to be in large force. When he arrived 
within six miles of Frenchtown he met a considerable 
force of Indians. 

Colonel Allen was in command of the right, and 
Major Benjamin Graves in command of the left — three 
companies constituting each command — while the center, 
likewise composed of three companies, was commanded 
by Major George Madison, and the advance guard was 
commanded by Captain Bland Ballard. 

When they reached Frenchtown the enemy was 
observed in motion and in line of battle. They were 
attacked in a most vigorous manner by the Kentuckians, 
and for two miles, under severe fighting, were driven 
back. The commanding general said of the troops 
engaged in this contest: "They amply supported the 
double character of the American and Kentuckian." But 
two men were killed and fifty-five wounded, while the 
Indians left fifteen dead on the ground, and carried off 
in addition a large number of wounded. The British 



The Battle of the Thames 19 

and Indians were commanded by Major Reynolds, of 
the British Army. His force consisted of one hundred 
Enghsh and four hundred Indians. Colonel Lewis was 
directed to hold Frenchtown. 

The success of this movement, communicated to the 
army at the Rapids, created a high degree of excitement 
and all were eager to advance and participate in the 
hostilities. On the 19th of January General Winchester 
himself advanced with two hundred and fifty men — all 
that could be spared from the Rapids — and assumed 
command of the force. 

General Harrison reached the ford at the Rapids on 
the morning of the 20th, and there discovered that Gen- 
eral Winchester had the evening before preceded him to 
the River Raisin, having left General Payne in camp with 
three hundred men. 

General Harrison did all that he could do, under the 
circumstances, to reinforce General Winchester. So soon 
as he learned, on the morning of the 2 2d, of the attack, 
he ordered all the reinforcements to follow those which 
had already gone forward under General Payne. 

The first intelligence they had of the dreadful calamity 
was from fugitives who had escaped from the battle, and 
who informed the scouting force that General Winchester 
had been totally defeated, and the British and Indians 



20 



The Battle of the TJianies 



were pursuing them toward the Rapids. A short time 
afterward information was received which showed the 
defeat was total and irretrievable, and all resistance on 
the part of the Americans had ceased. 

General Winchester, an old Revolutionary soldier, who 
had moved to Tennessee, living in luxury and ease, had 
no experience as an Indian fighter, and rested that night 
with his two hundred and fifty troops in fatal security, 
while guards were placed as usual. In consequence of the 
extreme cold weather, no picket was placed on the road 
along which the enemy was likely to advance. The night 
was passed without any alarm, but at daybreak on the 
morning of the 2 2d, while reveille was beating, three guns 
were heard in quick succession. Without delay the troops 
were formed in line of battle, and while doing so the 
British opened a heavy fire on the camp with artillery 
loaded with bullets and grapeshot, at a distance of nine 
hundred and fifty feet. 

The Kentucky troops had been placed within the line 
of a picket fence. The regulars, under Colonel Welles, 
who had come as their escort, had been formed in the open 
field, without the protection of any breastworks. A partial 
advance of the Indian allies on the right and left had been 
received by the Kentuckians with absolute steadiness. 
Around Lewis's camp they were repulsed, but the rein- 



The Battle of the Thames 21 

forcement which had arrived with General Winchester, 
composed of the regulars, after a short contest was com- 
pelled to fall back, and by some misconception of orders 
in directing them to form along the picket fence this 
detachment was thrown into confusion. Discovering the 
misfortune which had attended the regulars, Colonels 
Lewis and Allen left their protected point behind the 
picket fence and went forward to assist in rallying the 
men who had been thrown into disorder. 

In their disconcerted condition they attempted to move 
along a narrow lane through which the road passed from 
the field. The Indians formed on either side of this lane 
and shot the retreating Americans down in every direction. 
Some who had passed through the lane and reached the 
wood on the right hand were surrounded and massacred, 
and nearly one hundred men were tomahawked within a 
distance of three hundred feet. 

Captain Simpson, a member of Congress, in command 
of one of the companies, was shot and tomahawked at the 
edge of the wood near the mouth of the lane, and Colonel 
Allen, although severely wounded in his thigh, attempted 
to rally his men, begging them to halt and sell their lives 
as dearly as possible. Colonel Allen, attacked by two 
Indians, killed one with his sword, while a third one 
coming up, put him to death with a shot from his rifle. 



22 



The Battle of the Thames 



Lieutenant Garrett, with his command, consisting of 
twenty men, about a mile and a half from the village were 
surrounded, and after surrendering, all were massacred 
excejit the Lieutenant himself. Another party of thirty 
men, who had escaped for three miles, were overtaken by 
the savages and more than half of them shot and toma- 
hawked, and thus in a brief while a majority of those who 
were in the retreat were sacrificed. The snow was deep 
and the cold was intense, so they were unable to march 
or elude their pursuers. General Winchester and Colonel 
Lewis were captured a short distance from the village and 
were taken back to the British lines. 

But the British and Indians met a superior sort of 
courage from within the protected space. The troops 
there, under Major Benjamin Graves and Major George 
Madison, formed their men within a line embraced by the 
picket fence, resolving to sell their lives as dearly as pos- 
sible. Major Graves, being shot in the knee, bandaged 
his own wound, telling his men never to mind him but 
to fight on. 

A six-pounder used by the British had been posted 
behind a small house two hundred yards from the lines 
of the Kentuckians. Supplies of ammunition had been 
furnished by a horse and sleigh. The Kentucky rifiemen 
promptly killed the horse and cut off the chance of sup- 



The Battle of the Thames 23 

plying the six-pounder with ammunition. Again and again 
was the attempt made to dislodge the little band of Ken- 
tuckians, and Proctor was finally compelled to withdraw 
his forces to the woods and to await the return of his 
Indian allies, who had pursued the retreating party. 

General Proctor, the British commander, resolved to do 
by strategem and deception what he was unable to do by 
force. He persuaded General Winchester to send an order 
to the Kentuckians to surrender. Major Madison was 
unwilling to obey any such order, taking the ground that 
since Winchester was a prisoner he had no right to issue 
such an order. Proctor himself went forward for the pur- 
pose of negotiating a surrender. He demanded an imme- 
diate surrender, claiming that he would set the town on 
fire and the Indians would commit an indiscriminate mas- 
sacre. Major Madison still refused to surrender, saying 
it had been customary for the Indians to massacre all 
prisoners after surrender, and he would not agree to any 
capitulation which General Winchester might direct unless 
the safety and protection of his men were stipulated. 
He attempted to bully Major Madison, and asked him 
if he intended to dictate to him (Proctor), to which Madi- 
son replied that he intended to dictate to himself, and he 
preferred to sell the lives of himself and his men as dearly 
as possible rather than be massacred in cold blood. 



24 



The Battle of the Thames 



Proctor then agreed to make terms, by providing that all 
private property should be respected; that sleds should 
be sent next morning to move the sick and wounded to 
Fort Maiden, near Amherstburg, but in the meantime the 
prisoners should be protected by a guard, and the side- 
arms of the officers should be restored to them at Maiden. 
As there was but little hope of reinforcement, and as their 
ammunition had now been reduced to one third of a small 
keg of cartridges, there was nothing to do but accept 

these terms. 

Shortly after the surrender the prisoners were marched 
toward Maiden, Proctor saying that as soon as his wounded 
should be taken to Maiden the American wounded would 
be attended to. Doctors Todd and Bowers, of the Ken- 
tucky volunteers, were left with the wounded, and the 
only guard that was left was an English major named 
Reynolds and two or three interpreters. On the following 
morning, about sunrise, instead of the sleds which were 
promised to carry the wounded and sick, a large body of 
Indians returned to Frenchtown, painted black and red. 
These Indians held a council, and it was resolved that all 
the wounded should be killed in revenge for the warriors 
they had lost in battle. 

They then began to plunder the houses of the inhabi- 
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them of their blankets, and tomahawking them without 
mercy. Captain Paschal Hickman, who had been 
wounded, was drawn to the door, tomahawked, and thrown 
back into the house, the house set on fire, and the greater 
part of the wounded within were consumed in the con- 
flagration. Those who were able to crawl attempted to 
get out of the windows, but they were pushed back, and 
some who were not in the house were killed and thrown 
into the flames, while many more were tomahawked and 
inhumanly massacred and left in the streets and along 
the road. A few, who were able to march, were started 
toward Maiden, but upon the slightest sign of fatigue 
they were tomahawked and left lying in the road. The 
fate of Major Graves was never known. He started 
toward Detroit, but no tidings have ever come of his 
whereabouts. Some of the prisoners made their escape, 
while others were burned at the stake. 

Ordinarily, a government like the British would have 
hanged a commander Hke Proctor for such conduct, but 
in the state of public mind then in Great Britain he 
received promotion for his conduct. 

The Forty-first Regiment of British troops was badly 
cut up. Both General Winchester and Major Madison 
protested to Proctor against the violation of his contract. 
The renegade. Captain Elliott, in response to solicitations 



26 The Battle of the Thames 

for assistance and help to the wounded, replied: "The 
Indians are very excellent surgeons." 

On arrival at Amherstburg, the Americans were placed 
in an old mud hut, where they were exposed all night to 
a heavy rain without beds or blankets, and scarcely enough 
fire to keep them from freezing. They were thus exposed 
to the intensest suffering. 

On the 26th of January the prisoners, some of whom 
were wounded, were sent up Detroit River and up the 
Thames River, and carried through the interior of Upper 
Canada to Fort George at Niagara. They were subse- 
quently paroled and returned to Kentucky. General Win- 
chester, Colonel Lewis, and Major Madison were sent to 
Quebec, where they were kept in confinement until 18 14, 
when in a general exchange they were released and 
returned home. 

These horrible barbarities, together with the fact that 
the American dead were left unburied, created the intensest 
indignation and the fiercest hate among the people of 
Kentucky who had thus suffered by these atrocities. 

Another event, known as Dudley's defeat, occurring on 
the 28th of April, 1813, had aroused widespread excite- 
ment and horror in the minds of Kentuckians. 

Governor Shelby had sent General Green Clay forward 
with reinforcements to General Harrison, who was then 



The Battle of the Thames 27 

at Fort Meigs, at the Rapids of the Maumee. General 
Clay arrived close to the fort on the 4th day of May, 
and communicated by messenger with General Harrison, 
who directed him to send eight hundred men as he 
advanced to the relief of the fort; to cross the Maumee 
River at a point one and a half miles above Fort Meigs, 
and then, marching down the river a short distance, cap- 
ture some batteries, spike the guns composing them, and 
recross the river. 

Colonel William Dudley was designated to take charge 
of this movement. By some misunderstanding of orders, 
after taking the batteries Colonel Dudley's troops pursued 
some Indians who were seen in proximity to the batteries. 
They were led into an ambuscade; Colonel Dudley him- 
self was wounded and killed, and almost the entire force 
captured. The prisoners were subjected to massacre by 
the Indians, and after they had been corralled in the fort 
a large number of them, in the presence of British officers, 
were ruthlessly and wantonly shot down. Tecumseh, 
hearing the firing, rode up and ordered the cessation of 
this murderous policy, and protected the remaining pris- 
oners from death at the hands of the savages. The 
prisoners were subsequently paroled, May nth, and upon 
their return to their homes told of the horrors and barbar- 
ities to which they were subjected by their foes. The 



28 The Battle of the Thames 

American loss was eighty-one killed, two hundred and 
sixty-nine wounded, and four hundred and sixty-seven 
prisoners. 

As Kentucky alone suffered in this battle, this, taken 
in connection with the massacre at the River Raisin, had 
produced tremendous public excitement and a high state 
of indignation throughout the entire Commonwealth. 

The period for which the Kentucky volunteers had 
enlisted — who had gone forward with General Clay and 
had been at the siege of Fort Meigs— would expire late 
in September or early in October. The operations for the 
year had not bettered the condition of the American forces 
in the Northwest, and in Ohio and Michigan the condition 
was worse if anything than at the beginning of the year. 



II 

THE MATERIAL, ORGANIZATION, AND MARCH 
OF THE ARMY 

The American forces under General Harrison had, with 
difficulty, held their own in Ohio and Michigan. After the 
second siege of Fort Meigs and the conflict at Fort Steven- 
son neither side was very aggressive. The term of service 
of most of the troops at Fort Meigs, and in the parts of 
Ohio and Michigan where service was active, had expired. 
Governor Shelby had endeavored to secure the consent of 
the troops for re-enlistment, and offered a bounty of seven 
dollars per month extra to persuade the troops to remain 
for a little while longer. Following up written communica- 
tions to accomplish this purpose, he had Colonel Anthony 
Crockett, from Franklin County, Kentucky, an old Revolu- 
tionary soldier of great courage, sent to urge these troops to 
engage for an additional sixty days' service, but even with 
Colonel Crockett's imposing presence no better results had 
been obtained. The garrison duty, and necessary inactiv- 
ity of the infantry in that section of Ohio, had produced a 
very high degree of discontent. Rations had not been 
served with the regularity or abundance which the men 
expected. It looked as if the Army of the Northwest had 



20 The Battle of the Thames 

disintegrated, and that the forts would be abandoned and 
the territory lost. It was therefore necessary to have new 
enlistments as well as to have new men, if the war was to 
be carried on successfully, the positions of the forces 
maintained, and the territory held. The reverses elsewhere 
had produced a spirit of dissatisfaction with all the opera- 
tions of the war. News traveled slowly; there were not 
many newspapers, and those that were published did not 
give any very great detail of the military operations. In 
this emergency General Harrison appealed to Governor 
Shelby to come to his aid, and he had doubtless heard of 
the Governor's willingness, if necessity demanded it, to take 
part in the war. The Kentucky heart was filled with indig- 
nation, not only at the misfortunes of the war, but particu- 
larly at the disasters that had befallen Kentuckians. The 
public mind, therefore, was ripe for action, and when 
Governor Shelby issued his proclamation of July 13, 18 13, 
there was an enthusiastic response to the demand for 
troops. Twice as many volunteered as were expected, and 
had it not been for Governor Shelby's persistence and his 
broad views of the necessities of the occasion the results 
obtained would have been impossible ; enlisting twice as 
many men as were allowed by the call and, in defiance of 
General Harrison's suggestion, moving the militia on horse- 
back to the scene of hostilities were the two things which 



The Battle of the Thames 31 

made the Battle of the Thames a grand victory. The proc- 
lamation was printed on hand-bills and posted at all the 
public places throughout the State. It required in some 
localities as much as eight or ten days to get the hand-bills 
distributed, but no sooner were the contents known, no 
sooner did they realize that their country's honor and their 
State's good name demanded services, than the State 
became one vast camp of enlistment. While it was under- 
stood that only sixty days of service would be required, the 
men who were enlisting this time were doing so with the full 
determination to remain as long as war's emergencies should 
demand. They came with the calm and deliberate pur- 
pose, under the leadership of Shelby, of doing whatever 
patriotism and courage required. A large majority of the 
men who accepted this service were those whose business 
and families required their presence. In many localities 
of the State they had not more than ten or fifteen days for 
preparation; they knew they would be compelled to make a 
march of several hundred miles, surrounded by many diffi- 
culties affecting ammunition, food, and clothing, and it is 
extremely creditable to the men who thus aligned them- 
selves under Shelby's standard that in so short a time they 
were wilhng and able to arrange the details for a campaign 
fraught with such danger and controlled by such uncertain- 
ties as to the period of enlistment and service. 



,2 The Battle of the Thames 

The Commonwealth of Kentucky had very few good 
roads at that period, and the men who came from the west 
as far as Henderson and Glasgow donned their hunting 
shirts and made the best provision possible for the cam- 
paign upon which they were entering. In squads and com- 
panies they began to move from all parts of the State. 
Those whose arrangements were not completed promised 
their comrades to follow with rapidity and to meet them at 
Newport, the place of rendezvous, in time to start for the 
seat of war on the first of September. 

To a large proportion of the men thus answering so 
patriotic a summons, absence from home at this period 
involved tremendous sacrifices, but nothing could stay the 
generous impulse which warmed and animated their souls, 
and rendered them willing to do all and abide all which 
the sense of their country's honor and right required at their 
hands. And so from the great valleys where the Cumber- 
land and the Tennessee pour their waters into the Ohio; 
from the hills which overshadow the Green and the Barren; 
from the mountains that feed the rippling Rockcastle; from 
the head waters of the Cumberland; from the picturesque 
land where the Kentucky cuts its deep way through the 
limestone rocks, and finds for its waters an outlet in the 
bosom of the Ohio; from the places which feed the Licking 
and the Big Sandy — patriots everywhere made response 



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with liberty's noblest offering, their persons — these Kentuck- 
ians moved to the place of organization where they should 
all become an army, and be officered and led to meet 
America's most detested foe. To Newport came the best 
and bravest men the great Commonwealth could offer or 
send; social rank was forgotten and ignored; political posi- 
tion set aside ; duty to country was higher, more sacred 
than all other considerations, and these heroes stood ready 
to act when and where and as country called. 

The personnel of this little army surpassed in valor, in 
intelligence, and in patriotic zeal any similar number of men 
which had ever been organized in the State of Kentucky. 
The ready response, the unflagging ardor, and the superb 
courage which animated these men made them a most for- 
midable foe. A large number of them holding official posi- 
tions, many of them Revolutionary soldiers, more of them 
men of renown won by participation in the Indian battles 
from 1782 to 1794, they were possessed of a spirit of great 
personal pride, of manly courage, and of unlimited devotion 
to the cause of their country. In that early period of its 
history the men of Kentucky had the same wonderful State 
love which has characterized its inhabitants during all its 
existence. They felt that the reverses at Raisin and Fort 
Meigs, and the horrors and barbarities which had attended 
the battles at both these places, demanded from the State 



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of Kentucky retribution, and they were willing to make any 
march, face any danger, and engage in any conflict which 
should avenge the death of their fellow-citizens and restore 
the glorious record of their Commonwealth for courage and 
chivalry. Each man felt that he was engaged in history- 
making; that aside from the personal glory which might 
result from the campaigns, there was something higher and 
nobler to be considered in this ; the honor, the reputation 
and the fame of Kentucky was involved. No draft or 
threatened conscription had brought these heroes together. 
No fear or danger could drive them from their purpose. 
They were to follow leaders in whom they believed, and in 
whom they trusted with sincerest faith. The sight of their 
Governor, Isaac Shelby, was in itself an inspiration, and 
the vast number of Revolutionary soldiers, like William 
Whitley, Anthony Crockett, Joseph Desha, and William 
Henry, gave renewed inspiration to every military impulse. 
The future history of these men is the highest evidence and 
the surest indication of the magnificent spirit and of the 
noble impulse which impelled this little army. Vice-presi- 
dents, senators, congressmen, governors, ambassadors, 
consuls, and judges were all to be made from the men who 
gathered under the leadership of Shelby, Henry, and 
Desha. The men who there assembled at Urbana were, in 
a large measure, for half a century, to be leading factors in 



The Battle of the Thames 35 

the development, growth, and government of Kentucky. 
Little discipline was needed. The crack shots now and 
then violated the rules by shooting-matches, and the army 
was now and then disposed to make free use of cartridges; 
but these military peccadillos detracted nothing from the 
splendid esprit de corps and the superb patriotism which 
governed, directed, and controlled this army. Every man 
was impatient to go to the front ; with undisguised restless- 
ness they hurried every movement; a large proportion of 
them would have been willing to have gone forward with 
nothing but guns. Many of them carried their Kentucky 
squirrel rifles ; those who did not have these had been 
supplied with muskets either at Newport or at Urbana. 
They detested the slow march which was required to allow 
provisions and ammunition to keep up with the command, 
and everywhere officers and men demanded to be led for- 
ward in order that they might, on the battlefield, show not 
only their prowess, but their readiness to avenge the insults 
and dishonor which they felt rested upon their State by 
reason of the perfidious and barbarous treatment which had 
been accorded Kentuckians at Raisin and Fort Meigs. 
The officers found it difficult at first to restrain the men ; 
their zeal outran all discretion, but, in a little while, calmer 
judgment and mihtary discipline prevailed, and this brave, 
gallant, and chivalrous host submitted itself unmurmur- 



^6 The Battle of the Thames 

ingly to the leadership of their Governor and his chosen 
assistants. The staff appointments were men who, for 
intelHgence and courage, could not be surpassed ; and 
now, after nearly' ninety years, as we look back we can 
realize what it meant to have aids like John Adair, John J. 
Crittenden, Matthews Flournoy, George Walker, and 
Robert P. Henry; secretaries like Thomas C. Flournoy 
and William T. Barry ; adjutant-generals like Joseph 
McDowell ; brigadier-majors like Gabriel Evans, Robert 
Poague, Anthony Crockett, and John Bibb. No army led 
and officered by such men could fail in meeting any 
call that duty could make. With brigadier-generals 
like Marquis Calmes, George Trotter, David Chiles, John 
Edward King, James Allen, and Samuel Caldwell; colonels 
composed of such material as Trotter, Donaldson, 
Poague, Montjoy, Renick, Davenport, Taul, Calloway, 
Simrall, Barbour, Floyd, and Williams, these troops 
could not, under any fair conditions, fail to meet every 
possible emergency. 

Kentucky had already furnished far more than her just 
quota of the men who were engaged in the War of 1812, 
but the misfortunes and defeats and the massacres to 
which the men of Kentucky had been subjected had only 
aroused a higher degree of patriotism and a nobler resolve 
of consecration to the country's cause. 



The Battle of the Thames 37 

There were then fifty-six counties in the State. Some 
of the counties it would require four or five days to reach by 
messengers, and in some instances a week had elapsed 
before the Governor's proclamation had been read. When 
a month had passed forty-eight of the fifty-six counties 
were represented. 

Scott, Woodford, Bourbon, Mercer, Jessamine, and 
Clark all had large representation in the troops then in the 
field, but nothing could stay the great tide of enthusiastic 
and chivalrous response which came from every part of 
the State, in answer to the demands of the Governor for 
an adequate force to repel British invasion. 

Instead of the two thousand called for four thousand 
responded. Some came with only tomahawks and knives, 
some with swords and knives, many with their rifles, but 
all with brave, earnest, and patriotic hearts and all ready to 
do whatever their country and its cause should demand. A 
portion of them had seen service in the Indian wars, many 
of them had been Revolutionary soldiers. Although now 
well advanced in years, such men as Colonel Anthony 
Crockett and WilHam Whitley, who by their age and 
devotion on the battlefield had won exemption from 
further sacrifice, gladly stepped forward to meet the call of 
the hour. Men who held high rank in the militia of the 
State willingly became privates in order to take part in the 



jg The Battle of the Thames 

glorious victories which they felt would await them under 
the leadership of Shelby and Harrison. 

After drawing such arms and equipments as could be 
had at Newport they marched from there to Urbana, Ohio, 
one hundred and twenty miles north of Cincinnati, and 
there the regular organization was completed. 

General William Henry, a distinguished Revolution- 
ary soldier and a great Indian fighter and a major-gen- 
eral in the Kentucky Militia, was given command of one 
division, while General Joseph Desha was given another. 

The companies of Captain David Todd, Captains 
Matthews Flournoy and Stewart W. Megowan, of Fayette, 
and Captains Gustavus W. Bowers and Mason Singleton, 
of Jessamine; Captains Joseph Reading and John Chris- 
topher, of Woodford, formed the first regiment, under 
Colonel George Trotter. 

The second regiment was composed of the companies 
of Captain Isaac Cunningham, of Clark; Richard Menifee, 
of Bath; George Matthews, of Fleming; James Mason, of 
Montgomery; James Simpson, of Clark, and Captain 
George W. Botts, of Fleming, and was to be commanded 
by Colonel John Donaldson, of Clark. 

The third regiment was composed of the companies 
of Captain Aris Throckmorton, of Nicholas; Captains 
William Reed, Moses Demmitt, and Jeremiah Martin, of 




GiNiKAL JOHN POAGLE. 



The Battle of the Thames 39 

Mason; Captain Francis A. Gaines, of Greenup, and 
Aaron Stratton, of Lewis, to be commanded by Colonel 
John Poague. 

The fourth regiment was composed of the companies 
of Captain Conrad Overturf, of Bracken; Captain John 
H. Morris, of Gallatin; Captain Thomas Childers, of Pen- 
dleton (who had succeeded William Mountjoy as captain 
of the company); Captain Squire Grant, of Campbell; 
Captain Thomas Ravenscroft, of Harrison; Captain 
William Hutchison, junior, of Bourbon, to be commanded 
by Colonel William Mountjoy. 

The fifth regiment, to be commanded by Colonel 
Henry Renick, was composed of the following companies: 
Captain Martin H. Wickliiife, of Nelson; Captain John 
Hornbeck, of Bullitt; Captain Thomas S. T. Moss, of 
Green; Captain Thomas W. Atkinson, of Adair, and 
Captain Samuel Robertson, of Washington. The com- 
pany commanded by William R. McGary subsequently 
joined the troops at Portage River and was assigned to 
this regiment. 

The sixth regiment, to be commanded by Colonel 
Richard Davenport, of Boyle, was composed of the com- 
panies of Captain Archibald Bilbo (Colonel Davenport 
went out as captain of this company, but being promoted 
to colonel, was succeeded by Bilbo, first lieutenant), 



.Q The Battle of the Thames 

Captain Abram Miller, of Lincoln; Captain John Faulkner, 
of Garrard; Captain Jesse Coffee, of Casey, to which was 
subsequently added the company commanded by Captain 
Michael Davidson, 

The seventh regiment, commanded by Colonel Micah 
Taul, was composed of the companies of Captain Samuel 
Wilson and Captain William Wood, of Cumberland 
(Captain Taul, who was made colonel, was succeeded by 
William Stephens, of Wayne); Captain Thomas Laughlin, 
of Knox, and Captain Samuel Tate, of Pulaski. 

The eighth regiment, to be commanded by Colonel 
John Calloway, of Henry, was composed of the companies 
of Captain John Calloway, who, upon being made 
colonel, was succeeded by Edward George, his first lieu- 
tenant; Captain Eleazor Hedden, of Henry; Captains 
James Hite and Philip Shiveley, of Jefferson; Captain 
Robinson Graham, of Franklin, and Captain Samuel Kel- 
ley, of Jefferson. 

The ninth regiment, commanded by Colonel James 
Simrall, was composed of the companies of Captains John 
Hall, James S. Whittaker, and Samuel Harbison, of 
Shelby; Warner Elmore, of Green; Richard Bennett, of 
Franklin, and Presley C. Smith, of Washington. 

The tenth regiment, commanded by Colonel Philip 
Barbour, of Henderson, was composed of the companies 



The Battle of the Thames 41 

of Captain William Whitsett, of Logan; Captain Robert 
E. Yates, of Grayson; Captain William Ewing, of Butler; 
Captain James Gorin, of Barren; Captain Joseph McClos- 
key, of Nelson; William R. Payne, of Warren, and 
Captain Philip Barbour who, upon being promoted to 
colonel, was succeeded by Daniel Wilson, of Henderson. 

The eleventh regiment was to have been commanded 
by Colonel George R. C. Floyd, but from some cause he 
was succeeded by Colonel William Williams. It was com- 
posed of the companies of Captains Sylvanus Massie, 
Richard C. Holder, John C. McWilliams, of Madison; 
Thomas McGilton, of Clay; Captain Johnston Dysart, of 
Rockcastle; Captain John Hay don, of Harrison; to which 
was subsequently added the company of Captain William 
Berryman, and- also that of Captain Henry R. Lewis. 

The first and second regiments composed the First 
Brigade, to be commanded by Brigadier-General Marquis 
Calmes, who was succeeded by Colonel George Trotter. 
General Calmes, having been taken sick and unable to 
assume command and left at Detroit, followed the army 
and was with it at the battle of the Thames, but too ill 
to serve. 

The third and fourth regiments composed the Second 
Brigade, commanded by General David Chiles, of Mason 
County. 



42 The Battle of the Thames 

The fifth and seventh regiments composed the Third 
Brigade, commanded by General George Edward King, 
of Cumberland. 

The sixth and eighth regiments composed the Fourth 

Brigade, commanded by General James Allen, of Green. 

The ninth and tenth regiments composed the Fifth 

Brigade, commanded by General Samuel Caldwell, of 

Logan. 

The first, third, and fourth brigades constituted the 
First Division, commanded by Major-General William 
Henry, of Scott. 

The Second Division was composed of the second 
and fifth brigades and the eleventh regiment, and was 
commanded by Major-General Joseph Desha, of Harrison. 
General John Adair, subsequently to bear a distin- 
guished part in the history of Kentucky and of the coun- 
try, was appointed first aide to Governor Shelby, and 
Major John J, Crittenden second aide-de-camp, while 
William T. Barry, with the rank of major, was made 
secretary to the Commander-in-Chief. 

Thomas Barr, of Lexington, was appointed judge 
advocate-general, with the rank of major ; Joseph 
McDowell, of Boyle, was made adjutant-general and 
Colonel George Walker, of Jessamine, was commissioned 
inspector-general. 



The Battle of the Thames 43 

Governor Shelby, with miHtary experience and a true 
conception of the difficulties under which General Harri- 
son was laboring, wisely concluded that the best thing to 
do was to march his men through from Newport to Por- 
tage on horseback. The men would be far better satisfied 
to keep their animals, for it would provide them an easy 
means of returning, but the greatest advantage was the 
rapidity with which the column could be moved, and in 
the end this proved of the highest importance. 

Eight days of the time had been consumed in drawing 
the necessary arms, provisions, and equipments, and in 
reaching Urbana. A block-house had been constructed 
at this place at the beginning of the war, and stores of 
all kinds placed here for use of those who were to march 
from Cincinnati to Detroit. The march from Urbana was 
begun on the ninth day of September, 18 13, reaching, on 
the tenth, Manary's block-house, three miles north of the 
present city of Bellefontaine, Logan County. They 
camped on the tenth at Solomon's Town, near the line 
of Hardin and Logan counties, at Fort McArthur on the 
eleventh, three miles north of Kenton, the present county 
seat of Hardin County; on the twelfth they reached Upper 
Sandusky, the present county seat of Wyandot County, 
sixty-three miles north of Columbus. Leaving there at 
eight o'clock a. m., the army reached Fort Ball on the 



AA The Battle of the Thames 

thirteenth. This was near the line between Wyandot and 
Seneca counties. On the fourteenth the column reached 
Lower Sandusky, now known as Fremont, the county seat 
of Seneca County. At Seneca, half way on this day's 
march, ammunition was distributed. On the fifteenth the 
army arrived at its camp on the Portage River, where it 
remained until the embarkation for Put-in-Bay on the 
twenty-first. 

Governor Shelby at once reported to General Harrison 
and announced his readiness with his troops to obey all 
commands. Some historians have endeavored to show 
that differences and jealousies existed or arose between 
General Harrison and Governor Shelby. There was no 
real foundation for any such statement. These men were 
too great in mind and too intensely patriotic to harbor 
any such littleness. They were animated by a common 
purpose — to pursue, defeat, and destroy a common foe — 
and each, with unselfish devotion to country, did all that 
was possible to help the other. General Harrison would 
have waived the real and retained a nominal command in 
favor of General Shelby, but the hero of King's Moun- 
tain would accept no such sacrifice, and willingly and 
gladly, even though entitled to control as Commander- 
in-Chief of the Kentucky Militia, renounced all such right 
and took subordinate position to General Harrison. 



The Battle of the Thames 45 

It was a tradition in Kentucky for years that General 
Harrison hesitated about a pursuit of Proctor, and that 
Governor Shelby insisted upon such a course, and with 
emphatic language declared that he would follow Proctor 
and his British and Indians even to h — if necessary to 
avenge Kentucky's wrongs; but this was pure fiction, as 
was shown by both Shelby's and Johnson's acts and dec- 
larations after the return of the army to Kentucky. 

The topography at the mouth of the Portage River 
was peculiarly favorable for the purposes of Governor 
Shelby and General Harrison. A peninsula is here formed 
by inlets from Lake Erie. By building a fence across 
the narrow point of the peninsula, about one and a half 
miles, would enclose seventy thousand acres of fine grazing 
land. The land on this peninsula had been settled before 
the war by thrifty families, who had been driven away 
during hostiHties, and grass and other provender had 
grown up, so that there was an average of fifteen acres 
for every animal which should be turned into the 
enclosure. 

Orders had been given by which each regiment should 
fence the space in its front on the line, to be constructed 
across the peninsula. With three thousand willing hands, 
working with hatchets, grubbing-hoes, and knives, in a few 
hours the fence was completed. It was built of poles, 



^6 The Battle of the Thames 

about six or eight feet high, and then the brush and tree- 
tops were piled up on the fence, so that it presented an 
impassable barrier to the animals confined within it. A 
short time after the fence had been completed, from some 
unaccountable cause, these thousands of horses became 
stampeded. They rushed like a great cyclone toward the 
camp. Huts had been erected during the four or five 
days' stay by the soldiers, and in and about these the 
frightened animals crowded. A good many men were 
wounded and some killed, and many of the horses were 
lost by running into the water and becoming mired in the 
sand along the river bank. After much difficulty they 
were extricated and quieted. 

As the victory of Perry over the British on the lake 
had rendered the approach to Canada by water the easiest 
way, the troops were to be carried by boat, first to Bass 
Island, next to Middle Island, and thence to the Cana- 
dian shore. 

On the 2 1st and 2 2d of September all the troops were 
transported to Bass Island, where they remained until the 
24th of September, waiting for the arrival of stores and 
provisions. On the twenty-fifth the whole army removed 
to Middle Island, a small island containing about five or 
six acres, which was crowded to its fullest limit. On the 
twenty-seventh, early in the day, the whole army was 



The Battle of the Thames 47 

embarked and set sail from the Middle Island to the 
Canadian shore. 

The troops were exhorted to remember the fame of 
their ancestors and the justness of the cause in which they 
were engaged, and to the Kentuckians General Harrison 
and Governor Shelby spoke these four words: "Remember 
the River Raisin." By three o'clock in the afternoon the 
army was landed, the hne of march was formed, and in 
two hours the advance guard — the regiments of Ball and 
Simrall — was at Amherstburg, where they saw the smok- 
ing ruins of Fort Maiden, which had been burned by 
Proctor as he began his flight with his army of British and 
Indians. 

At this time General Harrison had faint hope of being 
able to out-march Proctor and overtake him. In a letter 
written that night, he says: "I will pursue the enemy 
to-morrow, although there is no probability of overtaking 
him, as he has upward of one thousand horses and we 
have not one in the army." 

After a search a small pony was obtained, and on this 
the venerable Shelby was mounted, and of all the gallant 
heroes who had left their horses some forty or fifty miles 
behind — and they would then have been very serviceable — 
only the hero of King's Mountain could be provided with 
a mount. 



.8 The Battle of the Thames 

On the twenty-ninth the army arrived at Sandwich, 
nearly opposite Detroit. It was expected at this point that 
Proctor would give battle, but on arriving there it was 
found he had deserted the place on the day preceding. 
Here and there a few Indians could be seen plundering 
the inhabitants in the suburbs of Detroit, which kept the 
people there in a state of great perturbation. 

General McArthur crossed over from Detroit and took 
possession with his brigade. On the thirtieth, which was 
a very trying, rainy day, the troops continued at Sandwich. 
The inhabitants of Sandwich, after some earnest arguments 
in the shape of threatened impressments, brought in provi- 
sions. A few of the soldiers had violated the rights of 
property, and upon hearing of this General Harrison issued 
the following order : 

"The Commander-in-Chief of the Kentucky Volunteers 
has heard with extreme regret that depredations have been 
committed upon the property of the inhabitants of this 
town, by some of the troops under his command. He did 
not expect that it would ever be necessary for him to 
admonish citizens who are proud in the enjoyment of 
property at home of the -impropriety of wantonly injuring 
that of others. Violations of this kind, while they disgrace 
the individuals who are guilty of them, will tend to injure 
the character of the army and detract from the merit which 



The Battle of the Thames 49 

the success of the present campaign would entitle them to 
claim. While the army remains in this country it is 
expected that the inhabitants will be treated with justice 
and humanity, and their property secured from unnecessary 
and wanton injury. The Commander-in-Chief of the 
Kentucky Volunteers enjoins it upon the officers of every 
corps to use their exertions to prevent injury being done to 
the private property of the inhabitants. He is determined 
to punish with the utmost rigor of martial law any one who 
shall be guilty of such violation." 

The naval successes of the war on the side of the United 
States, in September, gave new cause of congratulation. 
Oliver Hazard Perry, born in 1785, lost his ship and 
sought service on the lakes under Commodore Chauncey and 
took part in the attack on Fort George, at the mouth of the 
Niagara River, which was captured by the militia. From 
there he was sent to fit out a squadron on Lake Erie. How 
well and successfully he did this is best told in the story of 
the destruction of the British fleet on Lake Erie under 
Commodore Barclay. Both English and Americans had put 
forth extraordinary efforts to build and organize a fleet on 
Lake Erie, the British preparing their vessels at Amherst- 
burg and the Americans at Erie. With almost incredible 
energy and efforts he managed to construct nine vessels, 
capable of carrying fifty-four guns. Commodore Perry could 



^o The Battle of the Thames 

not restrain himself as he saw the British fleet maneuver- 
ing off the Canadian coast, and on the loth of Septem- 
ber, 1 813, with all his squadron, he engaged the British 
fleet. Perry's flag-ship, the Lawrence, was disabled, and he 
boarded the Niagara. He had placed some Kentucky 
riflemen in the masts, and under their deadly fire a large 
number of British officers and seamen were killed, and after 
a tremendous conflict, at three o'clock the British flag was 
hauled down, and for the first time in her naval history 
Great Britain, the " Mistress of the Sea," had lost an entire 
squadron, and had surrendered this to a young man only 
twenty-seven years of age. His dispatch to General 
William Harrison, then in camp at the falls of the Maumee, 
" We have met the enemy and they are ours," immortalized 
him. It is unfortunate that all the names of these Ken- 
tucky riflemen have not been preserved; they numbered 
about one hundred and fifty. They were largely from 
Colonel William E. Boswell's and Colonel R. M. John- 
son's regiments, and their accurate aim did much to 
dishearten the British and keep the decks clear during the 
conflict. This victory gave to the United States the 
mastery of Lake Erie. It was impossible for the British to 
construct a navy and organize a naval force on Lake Erie 
again, and the destruction of Commodore Barclay's fleet 
made access to Canadian territory by the United States 



The Battle of the Thames 51 

entirely practicable and comparatively easy, and rendered 
possible the pursuit, which was afterward made, of Proctor 
and Tecumseh. Perry subsequently carried his ships into 
Lake St. Clair, and in person he followed the fortunes of 
General Harrison and Governor Shelby. Six hundred 
British sailors were made prisoners. Commodore Barclay, 
the British commander, went into battle with one arm, and 
during the fight lost the other. The British loss in killed 
and wounded was two hundred, American loss twenty-six 
killed and ninety-six wounded. The news of this mag- 
nificent victory was communicated to the Kentucky troops 
about fifteen miles from Portage River, and gave new zeal 
and enthusiasm to the Kentuckians as they were nearing 
the end of their tedious and difficult march. 



Ill 

JOHNSON'S REGIMENT JOINS IN PURSUIT OF THE 
FLYING ENEMY 

Colonel Johnson's regiment, with the exception of one 
company, had been encamped at Fort Meigs since the 
middle of September. It had been placed there to awe 
the Indians and to keep General Harrison posted as to 
the military conditions then existing west of Fort Meigs. 

On the evening of the 25th of September a messenger 
arrived with orders from General Harrison to march 
immediately to the river Raisin. With the dawning of 
the morning the march was begun. The military instincts 
of these veterans convinced them that the time of action 
had come. They had known of a large Indian force at 
Brownstown, and among men and officers there was a 
feeling that in forty-eight hours the command would come 
in contact with the enemy. For the use of the regiment 
four pieces of light artillery were taken from Fort Meigs, 
each of which was manned by a captain and ten men. 
These captains were Craig, Turner, Gist, and Sanford. 
On the twenty-eighth they reached the river Raisin. 
Frenchtown, the scene of the awful calamity nine months 
before, had been abandoned by its inhabitants, with the 
exception of a few French families. 



The Battle of the Thames 53 

As they approached the town they saw the bones of 
their massacred brothers scattered over the plains for 
three miles south of the river. Ninety days before Colo- 
nel Johnson had sent a detachment to the battlefield, 
which had collected and buried the remains of many who 
had fallen on the fatal field. These interments, however, 
had been hasty, and the graves had been opened and 
the bones scattered afresh over the land. This awful 
sight produced a tremendous effect on the hearts of the 
men. With these grim reminders before them they saw 
again the helpless wounded prisoners and the barbarous 
savages bent on their schemes of murder, outrage, and 
robbery. They looked in grief and reverential awe on 
the spot where the noble and gallant Allen had fallen, 
where the handsome and brilliant Hart had gone down, 
and where the chivalrous Woolfolk had been butchered. 
Before them was the ruin in which the ashes of Hickman 
and his companions were mingled, and near by were 
pointed out the places where Simpson had found his 
end, where Montgomery and Davis and McAfee, with self- 
sacrificing faithfulness in their devotion to their wounded 
comrades, had met an honorable though barbarous death, 
and where Lieutenant Graves had been shamefully slain. 
In the early morning an Indian guide had taken them to 
the spot where Simpson had been put to death. His 



- . The Battle of the Thames 

extraordinary height, six and a half feet, enabled his 
friends to identify his remains, and they were given hon- 
orable sepulture. This sad duty having been performed, 
the line of march was at once taken up. 

On the following morning Colonel Johnson crossed the 
Huron River, and there received a dispatch from General 
Harrison in regard to the true condition on the east side 
of the Detroit River and of the position of his force, half 
way between Maiden and Sandwich, in full pursuit of the 
enemy. 

The troops marched all this day at half speed. On 
arriving at the river Decasse they found Captain Ben- 
jamin Warfield had been sent over by General Harrison 
to repair the bridge. The Indians, on the west side of 
the Detroit River, had prepared an ambuscade at this 
place, expecting that Colonel Johnson would march by 
night into Detroit. 

The regiment encamped at Rouge River that night, 
where they were re-enforced by four companies of regu- 
lars and one of militia from General Harrison's head- 
quarters opposite Detroit, some uneasiness having been 
felt for the safety of Colonel Johnson on account of the 
large number of Indians who had been seen prowling on the 
east side. On the 30th of September, at twelve o'clock, 
the regiment, after a hard morning's march, entered 
Detroit. 



The Battle of the Thames 55 

The approach of the regiment to Detroit had been 
observed by General Harrison, who immediately sent 
Major Todd with orders to Johnson to cross as quickly 
as possible. The men had not dismounted after their 
morning's ride before they received this order. They 
marched promptly to the river and prepared to cross. A 
few got over on the night of the thirtieth. A large 
proportion could not be conveyed over the river until 
the following morning. 

Johnson had been ordered to bring his regiment over 
with the greatest possible rapidity, but Governor Shelby 
himself crossed from the Detroit side and communicated 
to Colonel Johnson the result of the council of war, which 
had decided to pursue Proctor by land, but owing to the 
high wind all the regiment was not gotten over till late 
in the evening. Each man vied with the other in ener- 
getic, persistent efforts to cross. 

All the preparations were made on the night of the 
first for an early start. The hardy sons of Kentucky, 
who now composed the infantry, having left their horses 
at the Portage, were determined to show their endur- 
ance and their spirit by marching as infantry. 

The country through which they were to pass had 
been exhausted of provisions. General Cass's brigade 
could not march, from the fact that their knapsacks and 
blankets had been left at Middle Island. The cavalry, 



^6 The Battle of the Thames 

after drawing their provisions, made ready to enter upon 
the pursuit, but such was the haste and desire to overtake 
the enemy, on the part of the troops, that the infantry 
marched twelve miles in the morning and there waited 
for the mounted men to come up. 

It was found that the British and Indians, under 
Proctor and Tecumseh, either had not expected pursuit 
at all or had not expected it on the line along which it 
was made, and had left the bridges across the rivers and 
creeks which run north into Lake St. Clair. About four 
o'clock in the afternoon the mounted men in front met 
six British deserters, who informed them that at one 
o'clock, on the first, they had left Proctor fifteen miles up 
the river Thames, and that he had about seven hundred 
regulars and twelve hundred Indians. 

Starting at sunrise and taking a brief rest at noon, by 
dark the infantry had made a march of twenty-five miles, 
a most extraordinary performance considering all the cir- 
cumstances under which the distance was covered. While 
these troops at home were accustomed, a large portion of 
them, to agricultural pursuits and were hardy — their nerves 
trained to exercise — many of them had been called from 
mercantile pursuits ; but all had either been on their horses 
or in camp for the past thirty days. A noble spirit 
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of the day, in order to keep pace with the cavah-y in front, 
the infantry marched on the half run. 

On the 3d of October, by the break of day, the 
American army was in hne. A few hours' march brought 
them to the mouth of the Thames, where it empties into 
Lake St. Clair. Here the spies under Chaplain Suggett 
discovered a small party of dragoons ; they pursued and 
captured the dragoons, who had undertaken to destroy a 
bridge over a small creek at the mouth of the river. Five 
of these British soldiers had crossed the Thames River in a 
boat, but they were forced by Captain Berry, of Colonel 
Johnson's spies, to bring back the boat and surrender. 

Here, unfortunately, one of the horses belonging to the 
dragoons made his escape, and his wild run into the British 
lines gave Proctor the first intimation of the approach of the 
American troops. The sight of the red-coats and of the 
captured men gave renewed zeal and animation to the 
American forces. 

The second night the Americans camped ten miles 
above the mouth of the Thames, and next morning at day- 
light resumed the rapid gait of the day before, with the 
belief on their part that during the day they would be able 
to force the British to stand and give battle. 

About midday, at the Fork of the Thames, the Indians 
and British attempted to dispute the passage of the right- 



eg The Battle of the Thames 

hand fork and had torn the planks off the bridge. After a 
warm skirmish the Indians were driven away from the 
upper bridge, which was seized by Colonel Johnson with a 
loss of two men killed and seven wounded. Among the 
wounded was Captain Elijah Craig, who subsequently died. 
The Indians had thirteen killed and a large number 
wounded. 

During the day, Walk-in-the-Water, a Wyandot 
chief, had deserted the British with a company of warriors. 
On the preceding day he had a conference with General 
Harrison, and offered to make a treaty, to which the 
General replied that this was not the time to make treaties, 
and if he desired peace he had better abandon his British 
friends and get out of the way of the American army. 

After marching about six miles it was found impossible 
for the troops to proceed farther. Burdened with their 
heavy muskets, their ammunition and blankets, required as 
they were to carry all their baggage on their persons, it was 
impossible to make any further advance ; so they camped 
for another night, but with the consciousness that their 
enemies were not far away. At this point two twenty-four 
pounders and a large quantity of bullets and shells were 
captured. The troops consequently slept on their arms 
behind a breastwork of wood, logs, and brush which was 
found around the encampment. 



The Battle of the Thames 59 

Untin ten o'clock General Harrison rode around super- 
intending and inspecting the arrangements for the night, 
and during the entire night Governor Shelby was on 
active duty, passing from one part of the line to another to 
see that proper diligence was observed, and for a short 
time before daybreak he rested on a blanket on the ground 
with one of his soldiers. The troops were aroused at dawn, 
and by the time it was fully light the whole army was in 
motion. 

Colonel Johnson's regiment took the lead, with which 
was General Harrison and his staff, and the infantry fol- 
lowed, as rapidly as was possible, under the command of 
Governor Shelby. 

By nine o'clock the Americans reached a mill, where 
there is a rapid in the river, at which place it was possible 
to ford the river on horseback. Here several boats and 
barges loaded with military stores and prisoners had been 
captured early in the morning. In the mill, on the north 
side of the river, some of the Americans who passed over 
found a British lieutenant and eight privates, and from 
them the information was received that the allied force of 
British and Indians had determined to give battle at no 
very great distance east. 

The old military trail and road at this point crosses over 
to the north side of the river, and General Harrison deter- 



6o The Battle of the Thames 

mined to march forward on this trail. The river being 
fordable for horsemen, each of Colonel Johnson's mounted 
militia took an infantryman behind him. This put 
twelve hundred of the footmen on the north side, and 
the balance were crossed over in canoes, which were 
quietly floated down the river to this point. As soon as the 
troops were all over, the line of march was formed, and the 
entire force advanced at the former rapid gait. 

The road had been laid out straight; the river being 
tortuous, it was only now and then that the two converged. 
At every such point a large amount of military stores, 
provisions, and clothing was found, which the enemy had 
left on their hurried retreat. 

Eight miles from the crossing, after a march of two and 
a half hours, the Americans camped upon the place where 
Colonel Warburton and the British soldiers had rested the 
night before. Here it was learned that General Proctor 
and his Indian allies were about four miles above, or at 
least had been on the preceding day. 

It now became evident that the enemy was close at 
hand, and Colonel Johnson's mounted men were directed to 
march with all possible rapidity to procure the necessary 
information and to bring the enemy to bay. 

Two miles from the camp the advance guard captured 
a British wagoner, from whom it was learned that the 



The Battle of the Thames 6i 

enemy were in order of battle about a quarter of a mile 
beyond, and there awaiting the approach of the Americans. 
Colonel Johnson, with Major Suggett and the spies, immedi- 
ately advanced within sight of the British line, where by 
observation, together with the statements of several prison- 
ers whom they had captured, they were able to get an 
understanding of the line upon which Proctor's forces 
had been formed. The English had selected the battlefield 
not only with care but with great wisdom. 

The road, or trail, at this point was about two hundred 
feet from the river. The banks were probably forty feet 
high and sloped down to the river, leaving quite a space 
between the bed of the stream and the top of the bank, and 
the road was back a short distance — about one hundred feet 
from the bank. 

Beginning on the bank and running out in a westerly 
direction and at right angles to the road, the British were 
posted in a beech woods. In order to protect the road the 
British artillery had been placed so as to sweep it. It was 
straight at this point for one thousand feet. It was evident 
that Proctor had expected the main attack along the line of 
this road, from the fact that he placed there both his 
artillery and his British regulars of the Forty-first Regiment. 

To face these British General Harrison placed what was 
probably his best brigade. General Trotter had wide 



53 The Battle of the Thames 

experience, having been in the war almost from the 
beginning, and was one of the most gallant and courageous 
men sent by Kentucky into the field. The officers com- 
manding the several companies had also had much experi- 
ence. Bowers had been at Raisin; he had been surgeon 
with Lewis's regiment and had acted with great courage and 
gallantry in his efforts to protect his comrades from massa- 
cre by the Indians. His statement, made after his return 
to Kentucky, is one of the fullest of the narratives prepared 
of this dreadful event, and has generally been accepted as 
the most complete. 

The brigade, composed of the first and second regi- 
ments, was almost entirely made up of soldiers of Fay- 
ette, Jessamine, Scott, Woodford, Clark, Montgomery, and 
Fleming counties, and the vigor with which it subse- 
quently enforced Colonel Richard M. Johnson's charge, 
with the second battalion of his regiment, showed that 
there was no mistake in giving it the post to which it 
was assigned. 

Four hundred and fifty feet behind Trotter General 
King's brigade was placed, composed of the fifth and 
seventh regiments, which was in large part officered by 
men who had had extended experience in the present 
war, while the reserves were so placed as to reach either 
the line in front of the British or Indians, consisting of 



The Battle of the Thames 63 

General Chiles' brigade, which was composed of the 
third regiment, commanded by Colonel Poague, and the 
fourth regiment, commanded by Colonel Mountjoy. 

Facing the swamp occupied by the Indians, with its 
right resting on Trotter's left, was the brigade of Gen- 
eral Samuel Caldwell. He himself was also a veteran of 
the present war, having commanded a regiment the year 
previous in operations on the Wabash and White rivers. 
His brigade was composed of the ninth regiment, com- 
manded by Colonel Simrall, and the tenth, commanded 
by Colonel Philip Barbour, while to his left was the brig- 
ade of Colonel James Allen, composed of the regiments 
of Colonels Davenport and Calloway. 

As the British and Indians were waiting for the 
attack, the Americans were equally anxious to begin it. 
Though the British had the choice of the battle-ground, 
the Americans had determined, wherever such ground was 
chosen, to promptly accept the gage of battle. 

While upon the line of march the American cavalry, 
composed of Johnson's regiment and the infantry, found 
that the trail or military road would cover a distance of 
probably two miles and a half, and it required something 
Hke an hour and a half to make the necessary alignment 
before proceeding to hostilities, but with the British wait- 
ing for a fight and the Americans longing for it all pre- 
liminaries were soon arranged. 



64 The Battle of the Thames 

While forming the infantry lines and more closely 
inspecting the British line of battle, Colonel Johnson and 
General Harrison discovered that the British regulars had 
been placed in open line. This would put the men about 
three feet apart. The result of the battle was to be 
determined almost entirely by the cavalry. 

When Colonel Johnson commanded his first regiment, 
in the fall of 1812, it had been given a very thorough 
training by his brother, Lieutenant-Colonel James Johnson, 
who was a thorough disciplinarian as well as a brave and 
gallant soldier, and he and Colonel Johnson had then 
drilled this regiment so as to enable it to charge a line 
of infantry. The hollow square, the favorite method of 
forming British soldiers, while good for open ground, had 
never been practiced in the forests of America because 
there had been no cavalry to charge the infantry, and 
therefore this formation had never been attempted. 

Colonel Johnson, having had from May until October 
to use his regiment in scouting, when in camp had 
instructed it in the ver}' exercise and movements it would 
now be called upon to perform. He had dismounted a 
portion of his men, formed them as infantry, given them 
blank cartridges with which to fire, and then drilled the 
remainder of the regiment to charge this infantry line 
so as, first, to familiarize the men with this method of 



The Battle of the Thames 65 

warfare, and, second, to accustom the horses to musketry 
fire. There is no animal in the world that learns so 
quickly under these circumstances as the horse. He soon 
becomes perfectly steady under either musketry or artil- 
lery fire, and partakes of the excitement and enthusiasm 
of his rider on entering battle. 

General Harrison, very naturally and very properly, in 
his report of the battle of the Thames, takes credit for 
ordering the charge of Johnson's men in this way and at 
this time. As the commanding general, whatever was 
done by subordinates was done by him, and while he 
ordered this charge he assumed the responsibility for it, 
and was entitled to the credit of the results which 
followed. 

On the 2 2d of December, 1834, Colonel Johnson, in 
response to inquiries made by General Armstrong, said : 
"It is due to truth to state that I requested General 
Harrison to permit me to charge, and knowing that I 
had trained my men for it, during our short service, he 
gave me the order." (See Armstrong's Notices of the 
War of 181 2, Volume I, page 234.) But whether the 
credit belonged to General Harrison or Colonel Johnson, 
it proved a most brilliant and successful undertaking. 

The limited space in front of the British regulars was 
full of large beech trees. This part of the battlefield 
was practically denuded of underbrush, 



66 The Battle of the Thames 

In addition to the practice which Johnson's men had 
had in charging infantry, they were probably the most 
expert frontier horsemen in the world. In those days all 
frontier men rode on horseback. The rifle was their 
constant companion ; they were accustomed, either in the 
pursuit of cattle or in hunting, to carry their guns in 
the forest. They had no swords or pistols — they had 
nothing but their rifles, muskets, tomahawks,' hatchets, 
and hunting-knives. 

'In visiting the battlefield in 1899-1900, I was enabled to secure 
several specimens of these tomahawks that had been plowed up on the 
field. The American tomahawk or hatchet was so different from the 
British tomahawk that there was no difficulty in distinguishing it. 



IV 

ARRIVED AT THE BATTLEFIELD 

The hour for action had come. Behind, weary march- 
ings of four hundred miles, full of self-denial and unchang- 
ing privations ; before them, enemies arousing an immeas- 
urable hate; every heart was full of memories of 
savage brutality and cruelty to relatives, friends, and 
fellow-citizens for a quarter of a century. The horrible 
massacre of the Raisin, its indescribable barbarity and its 
fiendish inhumanity, was painted on every soul, and the 
spirits of its slain victims seemed to ride side by side in 
martial procession with these living horsemen, fate's 
avengers, chosen to inflict punishment on its ferocious 
perpetrators. 

The atrocities of Fort Meigs were not forgotten, and 
the cry of the Kentuckians, tortured and murdered by the 
savage red man within the sight of British officers, and 
coolly tomahawked or shot while helpless and defenseless 
in their very presence, seemed to beseech Heaven for a just 
and complete revenge upon those guilty of such unspeak- 
able horrors. 

Among these Kentuckians now aligning for conflict 
were men who had looked upon all that was awful at 



68 The Battle of the Thames 

Raisin and terrible at Fort Meigs. Some had shared in 
the humiliation of Detroit's surrender, and had witnessed 
their country's flag and honor sullied by General Hull's 
cowardice and imbecility, while others had endured the 
trials, insults, and torture of British prisons. All were 
animated by the highest courage and truest patriotism. 
The generous impulses of brave and chivalrous souls 
impelled every man to the noblest discharge of duty, and 
every ear was listening with absorbing interest for the 
sound which should call them to battle with their detested 
foes. 

Each man signaled his desire to march in the front 
line; there were neither laggards nor cowards in that Ken- 
tucky army. Intense desire to avenge the murder of 
fellow-Kentuckians was quickened by an eager patriotism 
and sharpened by an honorable ambition for personal honor 
and renown. If any were selfish of distinction, it was a 
selfishness controlled and directed by a thorough subjec- 
tion to the glory of Kentucky and their country, and seek- 
ing in the discharge of a public service to win a crown 
of personal fame. 

The long line of cavalry formed in columns, and the 
infantry, directed by aides and officers, moved with celerity 
and eagerness to find their proper positions in the order 
of battle. 



The Battle of the Thames 69 

On a small elevation, just west of the Longwood Road, 
at the northern end of the swamp, the English artillery 
was posted, and in the front the British soldiers, consist- 
ing of some seven hundred and fifty men of the Forty- 
first Regiment of English foot, were located in two lines, 
the men some three feet apart in line, and the two lines 
with one hundred feet between them. The English 
artillery was so disposed as to sweep Longwood Road for 
a thousand feet, and a quarter of a mile back of the 
artillery General Proctor and his staff took position. The 
space from the Longwood Road westward to the small 
swamp was possibly five hundred feet wide; then a small 
ridge intervened, and then the large swamp parallel with 
the Thames and extending north within these lines about 
two miles. 

Proctor had hastily chosen the field of battle. It pos- 
sessed many and strong strategic points. The Indians 
were posted in the brush along the eastern line of the 
great swamp, where they could sweep with deadliest rifle 
fire the narrow ridge between the two swamps, while the 
British regulars felt able to hold the limited space between 
the Longwood Road and the small swamp, supported by 
the artillery, the approach to which was covered by an 
unbroken forest filled with large beech, walnut, and maple 
trees. 



-o The Battle of the Thmnes 

The American troops had marched seventy miles in 
three and a half days. Their eagerness to meet their foes 
had hastened the tramp of their willing feet. They had 
already marched in line of battle about thirteen miles. 
They had kept well up with the cavalry, and the thought 
that a conflict was approaching filled their hearts with 
enthusiasm and courage. There was no time taken for 
the midday meal. They needed no incentive or support 
other than their ample bravery to keep them not only in 
line but with quick and steady tread along the narrow 
military trail. 

The cavalry covered the front. A small number of 
pickets or spies protected the flank of the advancing 
column; but the eleven regiments, at most four abreast, 
and the artillery made a line over three miles in length. 
Fully an hour and a half was consumed in getting the 
infantry in position. The regiment of mounted men in the 
meantime was reconnoitering and holding the enemy 
under close watch. 

Henry's division was composed of the best of material. 
At least one half the men had seen service in the previous 
days of the war, and it was officered with some of the 
coolest and nerviest men Kentucky had ever sent to battle. 

To General George Trotter fell the post of honor. 
General Marquis Calmes, well advanced in years, was by 



The Battle of the Thames 71 

reason of a severe attack of illness prevented from com- 
manding the brigade. No indisposition, however, could 
prevent his presence with his men. He was carried with 
the troops, but the command devolved upon Colonel 
Trotter. The brigade was composed of the first and 
second regiments. The men were homogeneous. In the 
first regiment (Trotter's) three of the companies, Todd's, 
Megowan's, and Flournoy's, were from Fayette; two. 
Bowers' and Singleton's, were from Jessamine; and one, 
Christopher's, from Woodford. 

In the second regiment, commanded by the gallant 
John Donaldson, two companies were from Clark, those 
of Cunningham and Simpson; two from Fleming, com- 
manded by Matthews and Botts; one from Bath, com- 
manded by Menifee; one from Montgomery, commanded 
by Mason. 

George Trotter was one of the most gallant and dis- 
tinguished soldiers the War of 181 2 produced. He was 
only thirty-four years old at the time of the battle of the 
Thames, but he had already made his mark among the 
military men of that period. Distinguished by birth and 
chivalrous by nature, he had responded to the first call 
made by his country and had gone with Simrall's regi- 
ment of dragoons in August, 181 2, and had rendered 
efficient service in the Fort Wayne campaign. With a 



72 The Battle of the Thames 

soul filled with the highest conception of duty and noble 
patriotism, there was no sacrifice at which he would hesi- 
tate for his country's honor. His relatives, friends, and 
associates had gone down at the Raisin. An unusual 
proportion of the men lost in that conflict had been from 
Fayette County; Fayette and Jessamine bore the brunt, 
and from these two counties probably more than any part 
of Kentucky there had grown up a consuming desire not 
only to wipe out any discredit which attached to the 
Raisin, but also to avenge its wrongs. 

As the associates and friends of the men murdered at 
Raisin and Meigs had been from the immediate locality 
of Lexington, it was deemed just that the brigade com- 
posed of soldiers from this immediate district should have 
the honor of fighting in the vanguard of the battle which 
was just about to take place. Trotter's brigade, therefore, 
advanced to the front, and was ordered to prepare to use 
the bayonet in the charge upon the British regulars. 

Here and there between the trees could be seen the 
bright accoutrements of the Forty-first Regiment of King 
George's infantry, and no men ever entered into a battle 
with keener desire for conflict or awaited with more 
eagerness the order to advance. 

It was about this time that it was made known to 
General Harrison, through the spies on foot in front of 



The Battle of the Thames 73 

Colonel Richard M. Johnson's regiment, that the British 
infantry, not suspecting the full nature and disposition 
and resources of the men opposing them, were aligned in 
open order. 

For some months previous Johnson had been training 
his regiment to charge in line through the forests in Ohio. 
He had used a large number of cartridges to accustom 
the horses to the use of firearms. Discovering the mis- 
take which the British had made. Colonel Johnson at once 
communicated this fact to General Harrison, and told 
him, with his cavalry regiment, he could break the British 
line in a single charge. 

General Harrison promptly authorized this movement on 
the part of Colonel Johnson, who at this moment observed 
that the space between the Longwood Road and the small 
swamp would not allow him to deploy more than one of 
his battalions. Anxious for the fray, he quickly detached 
one battalion and marched it across the small swamp so 
as to face Tecumseh and his Indians, while the other 
battalion, under Lieutenant-Colonel James Johnson and 
Major DeVall Payne, was at once put in line in four 
columns to charge the British infantry. 

In this supreme moment it was necessary to steady 
every arm and nerve every heart. Calmly the general 
officers galloped up and down the lines and encouraged 
the men to be brave, valiant, and heroic. 



74 The Battle of the Thames 

Colonel John Calloway, in the lull preceding hostilities, 
with his majestic form and stentorian voice rode out 
calmly before the fine companies of his regiment, and 
waving his sword aloft, said, ' ' Boys, we must either whip 
these British and Indians, or they will kill and scalp 
every one of us. We can not escape if we lose. Let 
us all die on the field or conquer." 

Similar words were shouted in the ears of every line. 
The men hardly needed these warnings. No braver 
army for its number ever went into battle. The result 
was bound to be annihilation or victory. Harrison, 
Shelby, Henry, Desha, Chiles, King, Trotter, Caldwell, 
and their subordinate officers well understood the condi- 
tions, and there was no equal number of men then alive 
who could have whipped this Kentucky army, led and 
officered as it was, and with the inspiration of the presence 
of men like General Cass and Commodore Perry, who 
had come to share with them whatever fate would bring. 



THE BATTLE AND THE VICTORY 

After a proper disposition of the forces had been 
made, and everything was in readiness and awaiting the 
charge, it was in making a reconnoissance that General 
Harrison discovered the open order of the British, and 
Colonel Johnson suggested to him that he could break 
the line of the British regulars with his mounted men. 

General Harrison immediately gave the order for him 
to charge. They were then eight hundred feet from the 
British infantry line. 

Colonel Johnson, in aligning the first battalion, com- 
manded by Major DeVall Payne, saw that the limited 
space in front of the British would render useless more 
than one battalion composed of five hundred men. As 
this battalion was to charge in four columns, double file, 
it would require a front for each man of about three and 
a half feet, and as there would be two hundred and fifty 
men, composing the four columns, of about sixty each, it 
was impossible to maneuver more than the one battalion. 

Finding that the swamp on the right of the British 
could be passed in places, he immediately directed the 
second battalion, then under command of Major David 



76 The Battle of the Thames 

Thompson, to change and take position in advance of 
the Hne of Allen and Caldwell, their flank being protected 
by the regiment of Simrall on the extreme left. In 
between the lines of the four divisions formed by the 
four columns of the first battalion rode the officers. On 
the right was Colonel James Johnson and on the left 
Major Payne. 

Amid hurried movements and while the spirit of the 
men was thrilled to the enthusiastic joy which ever fills 
a true warrior's breast at battle's eve, the command 
"Forward, Charge!" rang out on the oppressive stillness 
which surrounded the expectant host. 

Hardly had the horses begun to move when another cry, 
terrible in its intensity and with foreboding wrath in its 
tones, filled the space overshadowed by the mighty mon- 
archs of the forest. From the stalwart throats of nearly 
six hundred Kentuckians there arose the cry, " Remember 
the Raisin ! " As they lifted this mighty shout to Heaven 
they saw about them the forms of their murdered comrades 
and friends and relations. They beheld the bedizened, 
painted savages, with barbarous cruelty, strike their 
wounded foes and casting their bodies, when dead or writh- 
ing, into the flames to be consumed. They remembered the 
bones of their fellow-citizens scattered along the river and 
the fields and woods adjacent thereto, and before them 



The Battle of the Thames 77 

arose visions of those fleshless skeletons which, seven days 
before, they had for the second time committed to mother 
earth. 

Eight months and thirteen days had elapsed since 
this awful tragedy at Raisin had been enacted, but the two 
visits that these charging men had made to that dreadful 
spot and the scenes they had there witnessed (for many in 
the command had been at the Raisin) burned into their 
brains and created in their minds images which nerved 
every arm, thrilled every soul, and inspired every heart with 
the desire to punish and to destroy those who had been 
responsible for that awful catastrophe. 

As the cry of these Kentuckians resounded through 
the forests, it fell upon the ears of the British regulars, who 
themselves had been at the battle of the Raisin, and whose 
officers had connived at, or at least permitted, the slaughter 
of Allen, Graves, Hickman, Woolfolk, Simpson, and 
their noble commands. 

The galloping columns caused the earth to shake and 
the great beeches to vibrate as men and horses, mad- 
dened with the excitement of battle, crowded, shouted, 
and rushed to the conflict. The very boughs and leaves 
of the overshadowing trees swayed and trembled as if 
keeping time to the cadence of war's weird, strange, and 
frenzied notes. 



-3 The Battle of the Thames 

In the fierce charge there was but one cry, oft 
repeated, but rising each time in sharper and sterner 
tones, ' ' Remember the Raisin ! Remember the Raisin ! " 

These avenging warriors, catching the enthusiasm and 
deHrium of combat, rose high in their stirrups and plung- 
ing their spurs into the fianks of their chargers, as they 
approached the enemy still more furiously, waved their 
guns aloft and with their voices made stronger and 
stronger by the excitement of their impetuosity, cried the 
more vehemently, "Remember the Raisin! Remember 
the Raisin ! " 

No human power could resist such an assault. Cower- 
ing on the earth, or taking refuge behind the trees in 
their line, the red-coats of the Forty-first British gave 
way. The second line, one hundred yards behind, fared 
no better than the first. As well attempt to resist the 
cyclone or ward off the lightning as to stay this 
onslaught. The Kentucky horsemen were invincible. 
No sooner had they passed the second line than, wheel- 
ing about, they sprang to the ground, and with deadliest 
aim poured their fire into the fear-stricken infantry, who 
in their terror begged for a mercy and implored a pity 
which at Raisin and Meigs they had denied the friends 
and brothers of the men who had now defeated them, 
and before whom they knelt as suppliants for mercy. 



The Battle of the Thames 79 

No act of cruelty marked the conduct of these scrupu- 
lously brave heroes. They accepted the surrender of 
men who had acquiesced in and permitted the murder of 
their fellow-Kentuckians only a few months before. Civ- 
ilization and humanity controlled their embittered and 
justly indignant hearts, and not a single excess detracted 
from the splendor of their victory or the grandeur of 
their achievement. 

A quarter of a mile away at the rear, in the edge of 
the forest, along the trail, was the commander of the 
British regulars, General Henry A. Proctor, who was 
responsible for the revolting butchery and brutality at 
Raisin and Meigs. He came to Canada as the colonel 
of a British regiment, and his atrocities had never been 
reproved by his government. For his conduct at Raisin 
he had been promoted to a brigadier-general. 

His ear was quick to detect danger. He knew his 
fate if the Kentuckians (many of whom had sworn that 
he should not be taken alive) should capture him. 

He distinctly heard the tramp of Johnson's mounted 
men, and his ear caught that portentous and to him fate- 
ful cry, "Remember the Raisin!" Dismayed, he watched 
and waited for the result. He saw one line brushed out 
of the path of the horsemen or rush in confusion upon the 
second line. He beheld this last line disappear and the 



8o The Battle of the Thames 

black hunting-shirts and gray breeches of the Kentuckians 
as they dismounted and turned in furious onslaught upon 
his stricken and helpless grenadiers, and then, with his 
cowardly conscience impelling him, he turned his horse's 
head eastward and accompanied by a small guard of horse- 
men precipitately fled toward Burlington. Hard pressed 
by Major DeVall Payne, he abandoned his baggage and 
followers and fled through the forest to escape capture. 
His ignominious conduct brought upon him the contempt 
of his associates. He was tried by court-martial, disgraced, 
and deprived of pay for six months, and was publicly 
reprimanded by his superiors by order of his government. 

A sterner conflict and more sanguinary fate awaited the 
second battalion, under the immediate command of Colonel 
Johnson and Major David Thompson. This battalion 
consisted of the companies of Captain James Coleman, 
Captain William M. Rice, Captain S. R. Combs, Captain 
James Davidson, Captain Jacob Stucker, and Captain 
Robert Berry. On the right of this battalion was the 
gallant Colonel Richard M. Johnson, on the left Major 
Thompson. 

This second battalion was formed in two columns, on 
horseback, while one company was dismounted, and on foot 
placed in front of the right column, which was led by Colo- 
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like five hundred feet. In front of the column led by 
Johnson was a company on foot, while in front of those, 
mounted, was what was known as the "Forlorn Hope," 
in the courage and gallantry of which on that day was 
written one of the most heroic and sublimely brave acts 
which had ever been recorded of Kentucky men. 

The "Forlorn Hope" consisted of twenty men. Colo- 
nel Johnson himself rode by its side. It was led by the 
grand old pioneer William Whitley, and was composed, so 
far as known, of the following persons: 

William Whitley, of Lincoln, enlisted as a private in 
James Davidson's company; Benjamin S. Chambers, quar- 
termaster, a lawyer from Scott County; Garrett Wall, 
forage master, Scott County; Eli Short, assistant forage 
master, Scott County; Samuel A. Theobald, lawyer, Frank- 
lin County, judge advocate; Samuel Logan, second lieuten- 
ant, Coleman's company, from Harrison County; Robert 
Payne, private, James Davidson's company, probably from 
Lincoln or Scott County; Joseph Taylor, private, J. W. 
Reading's company; William S. Webb, private, Jacob 
Stucker's company, Scott County; John L. Mansfield, 
private, and a printer, Jacob Stucker's company, Scott 
County; Richard Spurr, private, Captain Samuel Combs' 
company, Fayette County; John McGunnigale, private, 
Captain Samuel Combs' company, Fayette County. 



82 The Battle of the Thames 

These twenty men, with Colonel R. M. Johnson and 
the pioneer William Whitley, at once advanced to the 
front. The main line halted for a brief space, until this 
advance could assume position, and when once they were 
placed, at the command "Forward! march!" they quickly 
and calmly rode to death. 

In the thickets of the swamp, in which lay Tecumseh 
and his red soldiers, they peered in vain for a foe. Not a 
man stirred, but the ominous silence betokened only the 
more dreadful fire when the moment of contact should 
come. 

Along a narrow space they advanced. Stunted bushes 
and matted and deadened grass impeded their horses' feet, 
but these heroes urged their steeds forward with rapid walk, 
seeking the hidden foe in the morass that skirted the 
ground upon which they had aligned. 

These were not unwilling victims to war's savage sacri- 
fices. They understood and realized the dangerous and 
deadly mission upon which they were bent; six hundred 
comrades rode behind, but were partially removed from 
danger. This noble vanguard was the cynosure of all eyes, 
and their fellows watched with almost stilled hearts to hear 
the signal guns which meant wounding and death to these 
twenty men who were daring so much and who were ready 
to receive into their own hearts and bodies the leaden hail 



The Battle of the Thames 83 

which in an instant all knew must be emitted from the 
ambush into which with open eyes, steady minds, and 
unblanched cheek this gallant band was now so bravely 
pushing. Fifteen hundred savages, with their cocked rifies 
at their shoulders and with their fingers upon the triggers, 
were waiting and watching only a few yards away, and 
behind trees and fallen logs and thick underbrush, with the 
silence of assassins, were longing for the word which should 
order them to pour death's missiles into the chivalrous 
squadron which, with absolute fearlessness, was seeking 
them in their lair. 

Into their minds came memories of thosfe they loved, 
half a thousand miles away, in peaceful Kentucky homes. 
Years these heroes lived in the few seconds required to 
pass the narrow space between them and their foes. 
Before their eyes came images of those dearer than life 
itself. Wives, sisters, mothers, sweethearts, seemed to be 
gazing at them from every side, and with affection's 
instinct they almost reached out to touch those imaginary 
forms which hovered about them in this supreme moment. 
They could hear tender voices calling, they could feel 
the imprint of love's kiss upon their lips and catch the 
brave words spoken at parting four months before, when 
they set out at their country's call to face danger and if 
need be death in her service; but all these only urged 



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them forward in duty's path and gave them calmer and 
nobler purpose in the conflict which was now upon them. 
Seconds were transformed into years. Almost breathless, 
and with an anxiety which temporarily stilled every 
physical function, the battalion waited for the instant 
when death's messengers should be turned loose and in 
their fury be hurled upon the brave men who composed 
the advance. 

The suspense was brief. A loud, clear, savage voice 
rang out the word "Fire!" The sharp crackling of half a 
hundred rifles was the response, and then the deafening 
sound of a thousand shots filled the air. The smoke 
concealed those who fired the guns, but the murderous 
effect was none the less terrible. Of the twenty, one 
alone escaped unhurt or failed to be unhorsed. A mass of 
fallen, struggling horses, a company of wounded, dying men, 
lay side by side. The bleeding beasts whinneyed to dead 
masters, and wounded masters laid their hands on the quiv- 
ering bodies of their faithful steeds. Of the twenty, fifteen 
were dead, or to die. Their leader, with a dozen wounds, 
still sat erect, his judge advocate, Theobald, close to his 
side. The remainder were lost in the battle's confusion. 

The "Forlorn Hope" had met its fate. Its mission 
was to receive the fire of the savages, when their fellows 
and comrades might safely charge upon the red men 



The Battle of the Thames 85 

with guns unloaded. Its purpose had been fulfilled. The 
promise of its commander to save all life possible, 
spoken at Great Crossings, in Kentucky, on the i8th of 
May, had been kept, but the "Forlorn Hope" had been 
annihilated. On this fateful field it had won imperish- 
able renown and had carved out fadeless glory. It had 
been destroyed, but its members had magnified Ken- 
tucky manhood and written in the life-blood of three 
fourths of its members a story of courage and patriotic 
sacrifice which would live forever. Whenever and 
wherever their deed should be told it would command 
the world's applause, and down through all the ages 
excite in the hearts of Kentuckians noblest pride in the 
glorious immortality they had purchased by their unself- 
ish, superb, and patriotic sacrifice for their country's 
cause. 

It was Johnson's idea that as soon as this "Forlorn 
Hope" or advance guard appeared, the whole fire of the 
Indians would be concentrated upon it. There could be 
little doubt that the majority, if not all, of its members 
would instantly fall, and that after having thus drawn the 
fire of the enemy the remainder of the battalion would then 
advance upon the Indians, receiving no damage at all. 

This plan would have worked most admirably had it 
not been for the unfortunate topography which confronted 



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these two columns of the second battaHon. For any 
column of cavalry the swamp chosen by the Indians as 
their battle-ground was practically impassable; water, 
decayed trees, and willo\^s rendered a charge on horse- 
back utterly impracticable. Men on foot might find their 
way through by careful picking, but a column of cavalry 
would find it impossible to keep themselves in line or 
charge with any such speed as would place them among 
the enemy before they had time to reload. 

When this "Forlorn Hope" had fallen, and when the 
front of his column had received the fire of the Indians, 
Johnson at once saw his mistake. He ordered all his men 
to dismount but himself, and then at their head, with his 
horse floundering in the water and mud of the swamp, 
carried his men forward to the charge. 

The experienced, courageous, and valiant Tecumseh 
stood in the swamp with his red followers, encouraging 
them by his commands, reproving them by his sharp 
censure when they were disposed to run, and threatening to 
kill all who refused to fight the white men who were 
now forcing the battle with such vigor and enthusiasm. 

The five hundred and fifty men of Johnson's battalion 
were reinforced by quite a number of volunteer infantry- 
men from Trotter's, Donaldson's, and Simrall's regiments, 
who, hearing the firing and the shouts both of the 



I 



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Indians and white men, rushed to the assistance of their 
comrades. 

For a quarter of an hour the result of the battle seemed 
in doubt. Twelve hundred Indians in the swamp and on 
their chosen battlefield, behind trees and fallen logs, did 
not hesitate to throw down the gage of battle to the six 
or seven hundred Kentuckians who now advanced to the 
assault. 

As the lines were pushed along through the morass 
Colonel Johnson saw, behind a fallen tree, an Indian chief 
who, with vigorous words of command and loud cheers 
and most earnest encouragement, was urging the red men 
to stand firm against the assaults of the white men. 

At the head of the column opposing these red men, 
Johnson, still sitting upon his white mare, rode around the 
tree and advanced upon the red man. At the first fire 
he had lost by a wound the use of his left hand, in which 
he would carry his bridle. The Indian, placing his gun 
to his shoulder, immediately fired and added another to 
the many wounds already received by the gallant Ken- 
tuckian, and then, having exhausted his trusty rifle, with 
uplifted tomahawk he advanced upon the white man who, 
although wounded, was now riding upon him fearlessly and 
rapidly. The savage, jerking his tomahawk from his side 
and waiting for no assistance except his own strong arm 



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backed by his courageous soul, rushed upon Colonel 
Johnson to strike him from his horse, but when he had i 
advanced within four feet Johnson, letting his horse loose, j 
seized his pistol from his helpless left hand and fired its \ 
contents into the breast of the Indian. Being loaded/" 
with one bullet and three buckshot, at such close range 
and piercing the heart of the Indian, he instantly fell 
dead. Some said it was Tecumseh. He was certainly a 
great leader, and it was at this time that somebody in 
the battle killed Tecumseh. 

The red men with amazement looked upon the sudden 
and unexpected death of their valiant chief. They heard 
no more his shouts of encouragement, saw no more the 
gallant wave of his hand, and with utter alarm and despair, 
with a great cry of disappointment, they rushed from the 
battlefield. 

In a single instant every hope was crushed and every 
national aspiration perished. These children of the forest, 
taught by the incantations of the dead warrior's brother 
to believe that Tecumseh was immortal, saw him reel, fall, 
and die as others of the race had done. Tecumseh's 
eloquence had made them confident that the hated white 
man's advance could be stayed, and that the nation of 
seventeen fires could not prevail against the red man 
protected and led by the Great Spirit. 



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The youngest warrior present had hstened with rap- 
turous dehght to the glorious future Tecumseh, in his fervid 
words, had prophesied for the Indians, and the oldest 
had been led by his eloquent appeals to certain assurance 
that no power could destroy the red men when the red 
men stood united in their wilderness haunts and bid these 
invaders defiance. Together these Indians had nursed 
these national dreams and racial ambitions until they had 
become part of their whole being. They had been taught, 
and their experience in many conflicts had led them to 
believe and conclude, that Tecumseh had been sent by the 
god they worshiped to lead them to a sublime destiny 
and to make them defenders of their race and protectors 
of their lands and hunting-grounds from the never-ceasing 
and constantly widening aggressions of their pale-face foes. 

With Tecumseh dead, to them life was a bitter and 
unbearable burden. It had neither joy nor hope. Confi- 
dent that the white man's bullet was harmless against 
their heroic leader, when they saw him tremble with pain, 
fall, then writhe and die, they read in this awful tragedy 
the doom of their race, the destruction of every cherished 
dream of success, and understood that a remorseless fate 
had bereft and was to destroy them. 

To them nature, hitherto so beautiful, so inspiring, and 
so generous, had suddenly turned in bitterest cruelty and 



go The Battle of the Thames 

with most malignant hate. To their tortured vision the 
great trees above them seemed to sway and tremble as if to 
fall in anger and wrath upon their defenseless heads with 
direful resentment. Nature to them seemed now only 
some wild fury bent upon their destruction and charged 
with their annihilation and overthrow. 

In a single instant they realized that nothing was left 
for the Indian. Deserted by their British red-coated 
allies, who now fled in dismay and terror from the avenging 
and uplifted hand of the Kentucky Long Knives, they had 
no heart for battle and no courage to prolong a contest 
which had to them been fraught with absolute ruin. 

They were not faithless, however, even in such awful 
gloom, to him who had led, encouraged, and directed them 
through so many years and in so many battles. Tenderly 
and reverently they lifted the warm, bleeding, and stilled 
body of the great chieftain into their arms ; stalwart 
warriors became his pallbearers. With a wild, weird shout 
of heartbroken despair, they abandoned the battle and bore 
Tecumseh's body into the pathless depths of the surround- 
ing forest, there to give him a hasty and honorable burial. 

It may be that they had heard from the traditions of 
their fathers, who had come across the seas to inhabit a 
distant land, of the burial of one in the mountain whose 
place of sepulture was known only to the God who had 



The Battle of the Thames 91 

buried him, and hence resolved that the greatest of 
their race, he who for twenty-five years had planted in 
their minds plans and hopes of a magnificent kingdom 
which should cover the mighty, unbroken forest and hold 
sacred for the use of the red man a fertile soil that 
knew not impoverishment, and hunting grounds, the limits 
and the abundance of which could not be measured by 
even the heavens themselves, should sleep in an unknown 
grave. 

And so, in the darkness of the night, with the sombre 
shade of the trees shutting out even the gleaming of the 
moon or the pale reflection of the stars, they walked in 
single file far out into the unexplored wilderness of the 
sylvan expanse to find a resting-place for their beloved 
dead. 

They had done what an Indian had rarely ever done 
before, they left the corpses of their fellows who had fallen 
in the struggle to the mercy of their foes. They had 
violated a code of honor and war dear to them and their 
ancestors, and they hurried away from the scene of the fate- 
ful conflict to give the ashes of Tecumseh repose where 
they felt the foot of the pale-face would never tread and 
where his eyes would never look upon the grave of him 
they called "The Shooting Star," and who to them, in 
their simple faith, had been sent from the unseen spirit- 



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land to be their chieftain, their guide, and their national 
leader. 

The dust of Tecumseh, in their loving hearts, was too 
sacred for the white man's view. The great warrior had 
loved the trees and the rivers and the waving grasses, 
and the silence and grandeur of their surroundings, and 
amid these they imagined that his departure from tliis 
world's scenes to another would best suit his noble concep- 
tions and his grand ideas of life here and hereafter ; and 
thus, with the rustling of the leaves in response to the 
tread of moccasined feet, as a requiem, they moved on 
amid the black darkness to a distant place in the wooded 
wilderness where a few of his comrades, with their toma- 
hawks and their hands, hollowed out a grave under a 
widespreading monarch of the forest, which was to stand 
guard over the sacred spot forever, and where in the 
peace, and yet in tlie terror of the tomb, Tecumseh was 
to rest forever. 

With skillful craft they leveled the earth ; with cunning 
hand they laid leaves upon it so that none could find it, 
and unknown, unmarked, the Indian Warrior's resting- 
place was forever hid from the white man's search. 

Persuasion, threats, rewards, promises, money, glory 
were all used without avail. The red man alone knew 
where Tecumseh was put away, and the red man died 



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with the secret in his heart. His loyalty to the dust of 
his leader was proof against all research, all exploration, 
all investigation, and all inquiry. Grand in life, Tecumseh 
was and is grand in death. In the isolation and desola- 
tion of his burial he becomes almost sublime, for to this 
day "no man knows where they have laid him." 



VI 

AFTER THE BATTLE 

The storm of battle was past. A small detachment 
rode hard to overtake Proctor and Elliott, and along 
the narrow trail through the forests pressed eagerly for- 
ward to catch the fleeing Briton and his wary allies. 

Some fifteen miles away Major DeVall Payne and 
half a dozen associates had captured Proctor's and Elliott's 
carriages and baggage, and with sixty prisoners were 
now turning their faces toward the camp of their 
friends. 

The remainder of the army was preparing for sleep, 
and as the twilight came on the saddest of all a soldier's 
duties was performed. 

Through the grasses and willows of the swamp, and 
along the ridges among the trees, search was made for 
the dead and wounded. At one place the dead were 
close together; at the spot where the immortal "Forlorn 
Hope" had received the concentrated fire of Tecumseh 
and his red men, the richest sacrifice had been made. 

The tall, stalwart form of the ever brave Whitley was 
there. His trusty rifle was in his hand, his powderhorn 
swung over his shoulder, and his hunter's knife in its 



The Battle of t lie 1 Jiaines 95 

sheath, and with his face to the foe they found the 
fearless soldier, now past threescore years, pierced by 
many bullets, lying at the side of his chivalrous leader, 
where he had gone down to death for his beloved 
country. 

A few feet away lay all the dead of the ' ' Forlorn 
Hope." Colonel Johnson had been carried a few hundred 
yards south to a tent. 

Lieutenant Logan, mortally wounded, had expired, and 
among the dead horses were found the lifeless forms of 
the other heroes who had so gloriously fallen in the advance 
upon the Indian line. 

Less than twenty yards west were the bodies of the 
red men who had disputed the passage across the swamp 
with the Kentucky mounted soldiers. 

The corpses of the white slain were gathered together 
and lain side by side on a small knoll just northeast of 
where the men had fallen and where the British artillery 
had been placed to command the road along which the 
Kentuckians had advanced. 

The British dead were also collected, and now that 
death, the great leveler and peacemaker, had done his 
work, the opposing slain lay calmly and quietly side by 
side on the mound which had been selected for a com- 
mon sepulchre. 



g6 The Battle of the Thames 

Over the bodies of the foe and friend blankets were 
spread, and there, with guards about them, they remained 
through the hours of the night, awaiting burial on the 
morrow. 

In the morning two trenches were dug, one for the 
British, the other for the Kentucky dead. A blanket 
was their only coffin. Side by side, with hands folded 
over their stilled hearts, these patriots were laid in 
foreign soil. Their features and forms were imposing 
and majestic even in their rude cerements. 

These hardy and warlike men were not unaccustomed 
to burials in the wilderness, but as they wrapped the 
bodies of their dead comrades in their winding sheets, 
which were only linsey blankets, and forever hid their 
faces from the light of day, they dropped tears upon 
these inanimate forms and bewailed that fate which gave 
them so rude a tomb on hated English soil. 

There was no sound as the loose earth fell upon the 
soft and yielding blankets; the trenches were quickly filled. 
On the beech trees, which were to be the sentinels to 
stand guard over the Kentucky dead, were carved with 
hunting-knives the names of those who had found graves 
beneath their protecting shade. The tragedy was ended, 
and these glorious dead were left forever in the solitude 
of the Canadian forest. The firing squad performed the 
last sad rites, the drums beat a dirge, and William Whit- 




RELICS PICKED UP OX THE BATTLEFIELD OF 
THE THAMES. 



The Battle of the Thames 97 

ley and his comrades, without monumental stone, have 
slept fourscore and ten years in a strange land. 

Long since the forest has disappeared. Only a few 
trees on the river bank tell that once a dense woods 
covered the battlefield. The agriculturalist plows his corn, 
harrows and reaps his wheat. Tradition only tells where 
sleep our brave. The murmuring ripples of the Thames 
are the only requiem of these gallant slain, and the waving 
wheat and the rustling corn-leaves whisper that beneath 
their roots rest some of war's richest treasures — the 
ashes of the Kentucky freemen who died for their country 
on the battlefield of the Thames.' 

In 1835 there appeared in the public prints of Ken- 
tucky a communication from a gentleman named William 
Emmons, who had anonymously written the life of Colonel 
Richard M. Johnson, in which he represented that the 
pursuit of Proctor and his men, after the battle of the 
Thames, was made by Lieutenant-Colonel James Johnson. 
Captain John Payne, son of Major DeVall Payne, felt that 
that honor was due his father, and he immediately took 
steps, by communicating with all those who were engaged 

' It is not to the credit of Kentucky that she has permitted her dead ^ 
thus to sleep. The bones of the Raisin's dead were collected and borne > 
to Frankfort and deposited in the State lot, but the Thames' dead have 
been left unhonored by any suitable mark, and in the ninety years passed 
since their sepulture I could learn of no Kentuckian, except myself, who i 
had come to visit the spot where these noble heroes sleep their last 
sleep. 



^8 The Battle of the Thames 

in the pursuit, to secure an authoritative statement of the 
facts in regard to that transaction. As there was no more 
heroic or courageous performance in all the War of 1812, 
it was just that it should be determined finally to whom 
the honor of this pursuit belonged. Major Payne, having 
died in 1830, could not speak for himself. 

Immediately after the shock of battle had subsided 
and General Harrison realized that he had obtained a 
complete victory. Major Chambers, a volunteer aide, and 
Colonel Charles S. Todd, a regular aide, were directed to 
detach two hundred men from the right battalion of John- 
son's regiment, commanded by Major DeVall Payne, for 
the pursuit of Proctor. These gentlemen, in the execu- 
tion of this order, found Major Payne in command of that 
battalion. With his troops, he was still busy pursuing the 
fleeing British and Indians. The battalion was then 
between the battlefield and Moravian Town, some four 
and a half miles above the present site of Thamesville, 
Ontario. When called upon to name what force he could 
command for that purpose, sending all whom he could 
reach to take the place of messengers, he at once gathered 
about sixty of his men from the various companies; these 
were all the troops then in hearing. Instantly they were 
organized. Major Payne was directed to push on to the 
Moravian Town, about a mile away, to endeavor to cap- 



The Battle of the Thames 99 

ture the enemy's baggage, and promptly lined up his men, 
in company with Colonel Todd, Major Chambers, Major 
E. R. Wood, Captain Langham, of Ohio, General Lewis 
Cass, and Lieutenant Robert Scrogin, of Captain Matson's 
company. 

From early dawn all the troops had been busy at work. 
The day had scarcely broken when the American column 
started in pursuit of the British, and so great had been 
the zeal of the infantry, and such their endurance of 
fatigue, that almost the entire day they kept close within 
reach of the cavalry. They had already marched thirteen 
miles, and it was well on in the afternoon before the con- 
flict took place. It was fully half past four o'clock before 
the pursuing detachment was enabled to proceed regularly 
to its purpose. 

From the commander to the private, in this whole 
army there was one consuming desire — to capture General 
Proctor. His brutal and barbarous cruelty and inhuman 
conduct at Raisin, Meigs, and elsewhere to American 
prisoners had filled the heart and soul of every Ken- 
tuckian not only with indignation but hatred; and stirred 
by these feehngs. Major Payne, immediately assuming 
command, took charge of the small detachment, which in 
so brief time could be gathered, and entered upon the 
pursuit. Riding hard, pressing their wearied steeds to the 

L.ofC, 



loo The Battle of the Thames 

utmost endeavor, prisoner after prisoner was taken, until 
with not more than sixty of his soldiers he had captured 
fully that number of British infantry and cavalry. 

In the pursuit, when Major Payne and his followers 
came upon Indians they were waved from the path or 
shot down. It was not the deluded savage red man that 
these heroes desired to capture and kill; it was the man 
who pretended to be civilized, who wore the British 
uniform, and had perpetrated such cruelties on defense- 
less prisoners, who was the true object of the chase. 

With unflagging zeal, though weary and sore, this httle 
command pursued the fleeing enemy until of the sixty who 
had started in the chase only nine remained. The pursuit 
was along a narrow road cut through the forest. It was 
a road which had been used by the British for their 
wagons and pack-horses through Canada from Toronto 
to Detroit. It was not more than fifty feet in width, 
and when hotly pushed the fleeing enemy, one by one, 
dropped into the thick forest on either side. 

Proctor, who had taken an early start, with his cow- 
ardly conscience belaboring him and a guard of British 
soldiers protecting him, with his carriage and one or two 
wagons for his baggage, was running away with all the 
speed that his guilty fears could command. 

The pursuing column, animated by the hope of the 
capture of the man who had incurred the hate and dis- 



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pleasure of all Kentuckians, rode with never-faltering step. 
The tramp of their steeds was heard by the guilty British 
general, who, abandoning his carriage and wagons, hastily 
mounted a horse, and with a small guard and some Indian 
guides, fled through the forest. In a few moments the 
pursuing party reached his baggage-wagons, guarded by six 
British regulars, who quickly surrendered, and in a short 
distance, further along the Hne, Colonel Elliott, whose 
barbarities and whose savage instincts, cultivated by the 
hate of his fellow-countrymen, had done so much and so 
barbarously for the destruction of women and children, 
was overtaken. He, too, was compelled to abandon his 
carriage and rush into the woods to prevent capture. 

General Proctor's baggage, papers, telescope, and offi- 
cial documents were all captured. The prisoners were 
corralled and carried back to the Moravian Town, thirty 
of them being in charge of the nine persons who had 
made this vigorous pursuit. It was ten o'clock before 
the advance of this pursuing party reached the Moravian 
Town, and it was after eleven o'clock when Major Payne 
arrived at General Harrison's headquarters and reported 
to him the result of the chase.' 

' One of the men engaged in this chase was Christopher Lillard, of Elli- 
son's company. From a British officer who he forced to surrender he took 
a beautiful dragoon fiint-lock pistol, which, with the belt and other accoutre- 
ments, is now in the possession of Christopher Lillard, his son, of Anderson 
County, and is as perfect as when captured nearly one hundred years ago. 



VII 

THE END 

The long, rapid, weary marches were now at an end. 
The battle had been fought, the victory won. The enemy 
had been crushed, defeated, scattered, and punished. 
Raisin and Fort Meigs had been in part avenged, and 
Kentucky's retribution had been laid with heavy hand 
upon those who had ruthlessly murdered her sons. Proctor 
was fieeing in disgrace and cowardice and was yet to be 
disowned by his king and court-martialed by his peers. 
Tecumseh, his savage agent, ally, and colleague, was dead 
and his body hid away in a Canadian forest, far from 
the place of his nativity and abode, and as these Ken- 
tucky patriots arose on the morning of the 6th of 
October they had much to render them happy, contented, 
and proud. Unaccustomed to walking, they had made 
unsurpassed day marches; they had subsisted on limited 
rations; they had traveled over rough and difficult roads; 
they had pursued their enemies for a hundred miles into 
a foreign land; they had faced every danger, met every 
vicissitude in a perilous undertaking. They had gained a 
great and important victory, with far-reaching conse- 
quences; they had completely broken the power of the 
savage in a vast territory ; they had secured a lasting 



The Battle of the Thames 103 

peace for Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan ; they had 
taught the red man, who had so long hovered with terror 
and the tomahawk about the frontiersman's home, that 
England could not protect him from deserved punish- 
ment from his Long Knife foes, and that hereafter the 
nation with seventeen fires would destroy the Indian if 
the Indian molested or murdered the white man, and 
that it was the interest of the Indian and his only safe 
policy to keep the peace with the pale-face warrior. 

All these things had been accomplished in an incredi- 
bly short period. It was only fifteen days since this 
Kentucky army had sailed away from Portage River to 
Bass Island, the first resting place in Lake Erie. It was 
only nine days since this army had landed at Maiden on 
British soil, and at the end of a week and two days its 
mission was accomplished. It had won a glorious renown 
and performed for its Commonwealth and country superb 
and immeasurable service. 

As the sun rose clear and bright on the morning of 
the 6th of October, 181 3, its light was long delayed in 
finding the battle-worn and march-weary men who were 
sleeping beneath the great trees which covered the scene 
of their triumph on the preceding day. No tents pro- 
tected the soldiers ; there were no houses open for their 
accommodation, and upon mother earth, wrapped in their 



I04 The Battle of the Thames 

blankets, they had found sweet and refreshing repose. 
There was no necessity to arouse them from their beds. 
The foe they had sought was either captured or fleeing, 
and so the sun was well up in the sky before the tired 
heroes were called into line to begin the duties of the 
day, which consisted of burying the dead, caring for the 
wounded, and securing and destroying all public property 
belonging to the enemy. 

Rested, satisfied, full of patriotic contentment, on the 
morning of the seventh the homeward march was begun. 
The wounded and sick were, after a few miles' journey by 
land, placed in boats and floated down the Thames River 
to Lake St. Clair, thence to Detroit. 

The infantry and cavalry marched to Sandwich, and 
a few miles below crossed the Detroit River to the 
American side, and from thence the footmen pursued 
their way to the camp on Portage River. The British 
prisoners were put in charge of the cavalry, but later 
were transferred to the infantry and guarded by Colonel 
Trotter's command, not one being lost by the way.' 

■ These prisoners were brought to Frankfort, Kentucky, and confined 
for a considerable period in the State penitentiary. The officers vigor- 
ously resented this treatment, which they designated "ignominious." But 
little sympathy was aroused on their account. The murders and bar- 
barity at Raisin and Meigs had not put these men of the Forty-first Regi- 
ment in a position to ask or expect much from Kentuckians. They were 
subsequently exchanged, but not for some months. 



The Battle of tJie Thames 105 

The lake shore to the Portage River furnished much 
good road, but the weather had now become cold and 
quite an amount of snow fell during the march. The 
winds from the lake were sharp and penetrating. The 
troops were compelled to wade the rivers and creeks 
flowing from the west into the lake. The soldiers had 
expected to be conveyed by water to the Portage camp, 
and this failure produced a tremendous amount of dissat- 
isfaction and complaint. These militiamen felt that 
they were entitled to fairer treatment. They had gone 
into Canada when others had refused. They had left 
their horses nearly two hundred miles from where they 
had found their foes and defeated them, and now that 
the whole purpose of the campaign had been so success- 
fully accomplished, and every expectation of the govern- 
ment and State realized, they felt that being thus left 
under such disagreeable surroundings and conditions to 
find their way back to their horses and camp was neither 
grateful nor considerate. 

It was necessary for General Harrison to explain 
publicly that the absence of the fleet was occasioned 
by the requirement for other and more important naval 
and military operations, and when this was known these 
brave men took up the burdens and endured the hard- 
ships of the long, desolate, and tiresome march of one 



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hundred and twenty miles without further complaint or 
regret. 

The infantry in its march reached the river Raisin on 
the 15th of October. Johnson's regiment, in the hurry 
of the ride to Detroit, had only partially buried the 
bones of those who had been killed or massacred by the 
Indians on January 2 2d previous. With reverent love 
and tenderness for those brave men who had fallen, Gov- 
ernor Shelby directed Simrall's regiment to make careful 
search for the bones of all who may have died and 
remained unburied, but the task was greater than antici- 
pated, and General King's brigade was further detailed 
for this work. 

They recovered sixty-five skeletons and gave them 
honorable and humane sepulture. The bones of these 
heroes had a sad and eventful history. After these burials 
most of them were reinterred in the cemetery in Monroe, 
Michigan, which city is on the site of the battle. This 
occurred on July 4, 1818. On August i8th a public 
meeting was called in Detroit by General Lewis Cass. 
A committee was appointed to bring the remains to 
Detroit, and there they were again interred in the Prot- 
estant burying-ground. In 1834 the boxes containing the 
bones were removed to the Clinton Street Cemetery in 
Detroit. In September of the same year they were once 



The Battle of the Thames 107 

more exhumed, placed in boxes marked "Kentucky's 
gallant dead, January 18, 1813, River Raisin, Michigan," 
and at last and forever placed at rest in the State lot at 
Frankfort, Kentucky. 

The animals and camp were found intact. Colonel 
Christopher Rife, with the detail under his command, 
had kept everything with scrupulous care and fidelity. 
The horses, with the abundant grazing on the peninsula, 
had fattened, and were now in good condition for the 
joyous and happy ride home. Willing hands, impelled 
by glad and satisfied souls, quickly packed all baggage and 
equipments. On October 20th, the day following their 
arrival, a general order was issued for the troops to return 
to Kentucky by way of Franklinton (Columbus), at which 
point those who had received government arms were to 
deposit them, and on the 4th of November, just sixty-five 
days from that on which the command met at Newport 
to be mustered in, they were discharged from further 
service and scattered to their homes. 

The departure had been heroic and enthusiastic. The 
home-coming was illustrious and glorious. The news had 
preceded the troops by twelve days. The mustering out 
was at Maysville. Mason County had furnished two com- 
panies in Governor Shelby's army, those commanded by 
Captains Reed and Demitt, and one in Johnson's regiment 



io8 The Battle of the Thames 

commanded by John Payne. The welcome was not 
confined to these, but the whole command had all that 
gratitude or patriotism could desire or suggest. 

Diverging at Maysville for all parts of the State, these 
heroes, drawn together by many sacrifices, much suffering, 
and severe hardships, and great dangers endured not 
only in this but many of the campaigns in which Kentucky 
soldiers had borne so conspicuous a part, separated from 
each other with deepest emotion. At all the county seats 
great crowds gathered to honor the returning conquerors. 
Public meetings in many places were called to express 
the grateful recognition by Kentucky of their patriotic 
devotion in their country's need, and for the next half a 
century to have been at the Thames was the ' ' open 
sesame " to public and political honor and preferment. 
Adair, Desha, and Crittenden were to become governors; 
Barry, McAfee, Charles A. WickliiTe, lieutenant-gov- 
ernors; Walker, Barry, Crittenden, Johnson, senators, and 
a score of them were sent as members of the House of 
Representatives, and to the State senate and house every 
year for a third of a century a large number of the men 
who fought at the Thames were chosen as the people's 
trusted law-makers. 

These men who followed Governor Shelby dared all 
that patriots could dare. They faced all that courage 



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could face. They offered all that freemen could offer, 
and they won all that a brave and chivalrous people could 
bestow. On that roll of her sons whose fidelity and 
loyalty the Commonwealth delights to honor, the names 
of the men who fought at the Thames on October 5, 
1813, stand out with a brilliancy and glory which time 
can not dim and ages will not efface. 



VIII 

THE HEROES OF THE BATTLE 

After such a victory as that of the Thames we natur- 
ally want to hear something of the individuality of those 
who won it. In a monograph we can not speak of all of 
them. They were more than three thousand in number, 
and it would require a book of no ordinary dimensions 
to devote only a few words to each of them. Those who 
began the battle and won the victory were Kentuckians, 
and while this fact narrows the limits of the meritorious 
to be mentioned, yet even all the famous Kentuckians 
can not be presented in a work of this kind. Some of 
them, however, can be mentioned, and naturally enough 
the most meritorious claim selection. But while mention- 
ing the brave Kentuckians, Harrison, the commander-in- 
chief of the army, must not be forgotten, for although he 
was not a Kentuckian by birth or habitation he com- 
manded in the insignia of a Kentucky major-general. 
Nor must we forget the Indian chief, Tecumseh, who was 
the most meritorious of the enemy and greater by far 
than any or all of the English for whom and under whom 
he fought and died. We may begin, therefore, with 
Shelby and end with Johnson, the two Kentucky heroes 




Governor ISAAC SHELBY. 



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who enlisted the troops, organized them, marched them 
to the battlefield and with them won the victory. 

Isaac Shelby. 

Isaac Shelby, the first and the sixth governor of 
Kentucky, one of the most remarkable men the State 
ever had as a citizen, was on the day of the battle of 
the Thames in his sixty-third year, having been born 
December nth, 1750, near Hagerstown, Maryland. He 
died at his home, "Traveler's Rest," in Lincoln County, 
Kentucky, July i8th, 1826. 

He early went to West Virginia as a land surveyor, 
and was a lieutenant in the company of his father, Gen- 
eral Evan Shelby, and fought in the great battle of 
Point Pleasant on the loth of October, 1774. This 
great battle, lasting from sunrise to sunset, was fought at 
the juncture of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers, and the 
Indians, under Cornstalk, abandoned the ground under 
cover of night. Here Isaac Shelby received his first 
experience and taste of war. 

He came to Kentucky in 1775, and remained in the 
wilderness without bread or salt for twelve months. In 
his absence in Kentucky he had been appointed captain 
of a company of militia by a Committee of Safety, in 
Virginia, and from 1777 to 1778 he was engaged in the 
commissary department of the army. 



112 The Battle of the Thames 

In 1/79 he was elected a member of the Virginia 
Legislature and commissioned a major by Thomas Jef- 
ferson. He had command of the guards sent by the 
State to protect the commissioners who were running the 
boundary between Virginia and North Carolina. By the 
extension of that line Shelby's residence fell within the 
limits of North Carolina, and a new county, Sullivan, 
having been established, Major Shelby was appointed 
colonel for that county. In 1780 he returned to Ken- 
tucky,- located and secured land which he had previously 
marked in 1775. 

Intelligence of the surrender of Charleston having 
reached him, he left Kentucky and returned to North 
Carolina, where he immediately organized a battalion of 
militia, and with Colonels Sevier and Clarke captured a 
fort in the Cherokee territory commanded by Captain 
Pat Moore. 

Shelby's successful aggressions on British posts caused 
Ferguson, of the British army, to make many efforts to 
surprise and capture him. He later, on the 19th of 
August, 1780, was engaged in the battle of Musgrove's 
Mill in South Carolina, where he inflicted a loss upon 
the British of sixty-three killed and one hundred and 
sixty-three wounded and captured, while the American 
loss was only four killed and nine wounded. He escaped 



The Battle of the Thames 113 

by a most extraordinarily perilous march, distributing the 
footmen among the horsemen, who each took a footman 
behind him in order to hasten their journey. They 
marched thirty-six hours without stopping to take refresh- 
ment. 

In September, 1780, Shelby proposed to Sevier and 
Campbell to march across the mountains into North 
Carolina and attempt the capture of General Ferguson 
by surprise in the night. While the command was given 
to Colonel Campbell, the credit of the enterprise really 
belonged to Shelby. 

The battle of King's Mountain, October 7th, 1780, was 
one of the turning points of the Revolutionary War. 
The militia with their rifles attacked Ferguson with his 
British soldiers on the top of King's Mountain. They 
killed Ferguson and three hundred and seventy-five of 
his men, and captured seven hundred and thirty. This 
extraordinary venture was made by riflemen untrained in 
military tactics, who had nothing to guide them but 
brave hearts, steady nerves, and trusty rifles. It saved 
the cause of the Revolution in North Carolina. 

The legislature of North Carolina presented Shelby 
with an elegant sword, which, however, was not carried 
into conflict until the time when Shelby was about to 
lead the troops in the battle of the Thames. It was 



114 The Battle of the Thames 

presented to him shortly before his departure on that 
expedition. He served with Marion and with General 
Green in South Carolina and North Carolina with most 
distinguished success. 

In 1782 he was elected by the North Carolina Legis- 
lature as one of the commissioners to settle the pre- 
emption claims along the Cumberland River and lay off 
lands allotted to the officers and soldiers of the North 
Carolina line, south of where the city of Nashville now 
stands. After performing this service in the winter of 
1782-3, he returned to Kentucky in the following April, 
and remained until the end of his life. 

It is one of the curious facts in connection with Ken- 
tucky history that at the period of his death, forty-three 
years later, he was the only individual in the State of 
Kentucky residing upon his own preemption. 

He was a member of the convention held in 1787- 
1788, as well as of that which formed the first Constitu- 
tion of Kentucky in 1792 ; also a member of the Senate 
of Kentucky, and was named as the first governor of 
the State in 1792, and inaugurated in Lexington June 
1st, 1792. His patriotism and his wise judgment in the 
support of the principles of the Federal Government in 
the Northwest would alone render his name immortal. 
Now, when threescore and six years of age — thirty-three 



The Battle of the Thames 115 

years, lacking two days, after the great victory of King's 
Mountain — this grand old man led the Kentucky troops 
to one of the most splendid and successful conflicts in 
which the soldiers of America were ever engaged. In 
1 81 8 he was appointed by President Monroe joint 
commissioner with Andrew Jackson to negotiate a treaty 
with the Chickasaw Indians, which was executed October 
19, 18 18, resulting in the purchase of all the land in 
Tennessee and Kentucky lying west of the Tennessee 
River. 

The noblest manhood of Kentucky was proud to 
follow General Shelby on this occasion. No army had 
ever left the State comprising among its members men 
of more patriotism, more courage, more intelligence, and 
more true nobility than these men who marched with 
Shelby and Harrison to their victory on the Thames. 

It is almost impossible to calculate the beneficent 
results which came to the United States from the victory 
of the Thames. In the first place, it completely broke 
the English power in this section, destroyed their prestige 
with the Indians, and demonstrated to them, who at all 
times had been helped and encouraged by the British, 
that it was useless to expect that even v/ith British aid 
they could maintain themselves against the rapidly 
developing power of the United States. It therefore 



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practically ended the Indian wars in the Northwest, and 
at once secured full control of Michigan, Indiana, and 
Illinois for settlement. 

General William Henry. 

Genera! William Henry, who commanded the First 
Division, had been both a Revolutionary soldier and a 
successful Indian fighter. 

He was born April 12, 1761, in Charlotte County, 
Virginia. He was the son of Reverend Robert Henry, a 
Presbyterian divine. When seventeen years of age he 
entered the Revolutionary army, and served through the 
war as a private under Colonel Harry Lee. He was at 
Guilford Courthouse, Yorktown, and other battles, and 
emigrated to Kentucky in 1781. 

He first settled on Salt River, in Lincoln County, and 
afterward moved to Flournoy Station, in Scott County. 
He was the father of thirteen children; five of his sons were 
in the War of 181 2, so that at the time he left his home 
the mother was weighted with the thought that five sons 
and her husband were exposed to the casualties of war. 

He was engaged frequently in the punishment of the 
Indians, who made forays into Kentucky, and was an 
aide-de-camp to General Wilkerson in his campaign across 
the Ohio in 1791. 




General WILLIAM HENKV. 



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Between General Henry's family and the Johnson 
family there grew up a bitter political feeling, which was 
maintained during the life of the parties. 

General Henry was a man of great intelligence, a fine 
public speaker; six feet two inches high and perfectly 
erect, blue-gray eyes and Roman nose, pleasant in con- 
versation, fond of anecdote, with a kindly disposition 
which bore no malice, without ostentation, and a Christian 
gentleman of the highest character. 

He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and was 
a member of the first Synod of that church in the State 
of Kentucky, formed in 1803. He was senator from Scott 
County, 1796 to 1800, and its representative in the 
Kentucky Legislature, 1793-4, 1801, and 1809. He was 
defeated in 181 3 for the legislature by Colonel Robert 
Johnson, father of Colonel Richard M. Johnson, and never 
afterward aspired to any political office. 

[He long held a prominent command in the mihtia of 
Kentucky, was a great favorite with Governor Shelby, and 
was given the position of senior major-general at Urbana, 
Ohio, and during the absence of Governor Shelby was 
in chief command of the Kentucky army. 

His family had a remarkable record. Two of his sons 
were representatives in Congress from Kentucky, and the 
third, Gustavus A. Henry, represented Christian County 



ii8 The Battle of the Thames 

in the Kentucky Legislature in 183 1-2, and upon his 
removal to Tennessee was elected to Congress, and was 
also senator in the Confederate Congress and a distin- 
guished officer in the Confederate service. 

His grandson was a member of Congress from Missis- 
sippi, and a great-grandson was also a member of Congress 
from Mississippi. 

He was appointed by President Madison assessor for 
the Third Kentucky District, which office he held for 
several years, and in 18 16 moved to Hopkinsville, Chris- 
tian County, living in strict retirement with his family, 
and where he died November 23, 1824. He was interred 
on the farm of his brother, about ten miles from Hop- 
kinsville. 

General Joseph Desha. 

General Joseph Desha, who commanded the Second 
Division, was born in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, 
December 9, 1768. His father had moved from the 
Wyoming Valley to Virginia a short time before the 
Indian massacre, and in 1781 came to Kentucky. 

He volunteered in the campaign under Wayne, was 
with him at Fallen Timbers in 1794, and acted with great 
gallantry. For quite a number of years he remained with 
William Whitley at his station near Crab Orchard. 




General JOSEPH DliSHA. 



The Battle of the Thames 119 

Whitley became very much attached to him, and it was 
to General Desha, the night before the battle of the 
Thames, that he imparted his presentiment of death on 
the coming day, and begged him to bear to his wife 
messages of affection, and his rifle and powderhorn. 

Shortly after his marriage he moved to Mason County, 
Kentucky, and represented that county in the senate 
from 1803 to 1807, and in the House of Representatives 
in 1797-99, 1800, 1 80 1-2. He was a member of the 
House of Representatives in Congress from Kentucky 
from 1816 to 1 8 19. 

He was named by Governor Shelby as one of the 
major-generals to command a division in the expedition 
which ended in the battle of the Thames. His division 
was composed of the brigades of General Chiles and 
General Caldwell, and the eleventh regiment, com- 
manded by Colonel William Williams. 

In 1820 he was defeated for Governor by General 
Adair, being third in the list; but in 1824 he was elected, 
receiving 38,300 votes as against 22,000 for the brilliant 
Christopher Tompkins, his opponent. Tompkins was, 
however, subsequently elected to Congress two terms, in 

1833-35- 

While General Desha's early education was meager — 

such as the frontier could afford — he remedied this defect 



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by study, and oftentimes by firelight, and after attaining 
manhood and entering pubHc Hfe, by systematic study he 
prepared himself for the duties to which he was called by 
the appreciation of his fellow-citizens. 

He was Chairman of the Committee of the Whole in 
the Kentucky House of Representatives during the con- 
sideration of the resolutions of 1798. 

In 1S26 he moved to Harrison County, subsequently 
to Georgetown, in Scott County, in 1840, and died there 
October 11, 1842. He was interred on his farm, where a 
monument was erected to his memory. In 1880 his 
remains were reinterred at Georgetown Cemetery, and 
the monument removed to that place. 

His canvass for governor in 1S24 was marked by the 
highest feeling. General Desha denounced with tre- 
mendous force and vehemence the anti-relief judges — 
Boyle, Miller, Clark, and Blair. He was a "New Court" 
man, and was elected by a very large majority. 

A number of his descendants still reside in Harrison 
County, and manifest that manliness and personal cour- 
age which marked their distinguished ancestor. 




5*Pi- 



General WILLIAM HENKV HARRISON. 



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William Henry Harrison. 

William Henry Harrison was born at Berkeley, Charles 
City County, Virginia, February 9, 1773. 

In April, 1791, at eighteen years of age, he was 
appointed by Washington ensign, and assigned to the 
First Regiment of Artillery, then encamped on the site 
of Cincinnati. He was with General Wayne August 20, 
1794, at the battle of Fallen Timbers, and in 1799 was 
elected delegate to Congress from the Western Territory. 

In 1800 he was appointed governor of the new terri- 
tory of Indiana, which then comprised the States of 
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and became 
commander-in-chief of the territorial militia. 

He negotiated thirteen treaties with the Indians of the 
West and won his earliest renown as a commander at 
the battle of Tippecanoe, the 7th of November, 181 1. 

The distinguished honor was conferred upon him of 
having been made a major-general of the Kentucky 
mihtia by Governor Scott, though not a citizen of the 
State. Such an appointment was not authorized by law, 
but Governor Scott called the matter to the attention of 
the leading men of Kentucky, including Henry Clay and 
others, and they advised the appointment, which was 
immediately made by the governor. 



122 The Battle of the Thames 

He was appointed by President Madison, in conjunc- 
tion with Slielby and Lewis Cass, as associate on the 
Indian Commission, and in 1816 was elected member of 
Congress from Ohio. 

In his course he had created certain enmities which 
followed him into the Congress of the United States ; 
and, when a resolution was offered providing for a medal 
to be given to Harrison and Shelby for their distinguished 
services at the battle of the Thames, Harrison's name 
was stricken out, and Shelby instructed his friends to 
refuse, in his name, any honor which could not be shared 
with General Harrison. In 18 18 this bit of spite was 
remedied by the adoption of the original resolution. 

He was elected senator from Ohio in 1824, and 
appointed Minister to the Republic of Colombia in 1828. 
In 1840 he was elected President of the United States, 
and inaugurated March 4, 1841. He died exactly one 
month thereafter, April 4, 1841. 

Few careers have been marked by more uniform success. 
No man did more than Harrison for the extension of the 
territorial limits of the United States. He was brave, 
generous, able, patriotic. He purchased a home at North 
Bend, Ohio, a few miles northwest of Cincinnati, and 
is buried on the bank of the Ohio, at that place. 




Gknekal JOHN EDWAKl) KING. 



The Battle of the Thames 123 

General John Edward King. 

General John Edward King, who commanded the 
Third Brigade, was born at Dumfries, Prince WilHam 
County, Virginia, on the 21st of December, 1757, and died 
in Burksville, Cumberland County, Kentucky, May 13, 
1828. 

He moved from Virginia to Cumberland County, 
Kentucky, in 1797. He was admitted as a member of 
the Frankfort bar shortly after his arrival in the State, 
and was appointed county and circuit clerk of Cumberland 
County when it was organized in 1798. He had been 
active in the militia service of the State. He owned a 
tract of land two miles north of Burksville on the road 
to Columbia, known as Melmont. He was married twice 
and had a large family. His son, Milton King, succeeded 
him as circuit and county clerk, and held the position 
until the adoption of the Constitution of 1850. 

General King was buried at his home, Melmont, and 
over his grave is a slab with the following inscription : 
"In memory of Major-General John Edward King. 
Born, December 21, 1757; died. May 13, 1828." 

General King was a man of imposing ^presence and 
courtly manners, and exercised great influence in the 
section in which he lived. A large number of his descend- 



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ants still live in Cumberland County. Godfrey Hunter, 
member of Congress and minister to Guatemala, married 
a descendant of General King. 

General Samuel Caldwell. 

General Samuel Caldwell, commander of the Fifth 
Brigade, was born in Charlotte County, Virginia, in 1770, 
and came with his father's family to Kentucky in 1787. 
He early moved to Russellville, in Logan County, and 
was the first clerk of that county. 

He commanded a regiment in the early part of the 
war. This regiment having been enlisted on the 20th 
of September, 181 2, its time expired on the 29th of Octo- 
ber, 181 2. It was known as the First Kentucky Regiment 
of Mounted Militia. 

He came of a distinguished family. His brother, 
General John Caldwell, was elected lieutenant-governor of 
Kentucky in 1804, and died at Frankfort that year, while 
the legislature was in session. 

Caldwell County was named for him, and to his 
memory the State erected a monument. His brother, 
Robert Caldwell, presided in the House of Representa- 
tives of the Kentucky Legislature in 1798, when the 
famous resolutions of that date were presented by John 
Breckenridge and adopted. 




JOHN ADAIR, 

Governor nl KMiitm k>, JS20-24. 
From a painting in possession of William Briiiue^ Tliayer. Kansas Citv. Missour 



The Battle of the Thames 125 

When eighteen years of age, in 1788, he was a 
member of General Wilkinson's command, which was 
engaged in the Indian territory. 

He died June 14, 1835, and was buried with the highest 
military honors. He and his wife are buried in a garden 
in the southern part of the city of Russellville, in what is 
known as Polly Latham's Addition. A simple headstone 
marks his resting place, on which is inscribed: "In 
memory of General Samuel Caldwell, who departed this 
life June 14, 1835. 'An honest man, the noblest work 
of God.'" 

He was buried in the place in which he had lived for 
a number of years, at his home, which is now the property 
of John G. Orndorf, of Russellville, who has kindly given 
the writer much of the information concerning him. 

He was a man of great courage, the highest convic- 
tions, and noblest patriotism. He was a member of the 
house of representatives from Caldwell County in 1805 
and 1809. He possessed the widest influence, and was in 
the fullest sense honest and patriotic. 

General John Adair. 

General John Adair, First Aide to Governor Shelby, 
was one of the most distinguished men in the early history 
of the State. He was born in South Carolina in 1757. 



126 The Battle of the Thames 

When quite a youth he joined the American forces, was 
subsequently made prisoner by the British, and treated 
with unusual cruelty and barbarity. 

In 1786 he came to Kentucky and settled in Mercer 
County, and in all the Indian wars he took a prominent 
part. In a battle with the Indian chief Little Turtle, in 
November, 1792, he exhibited great courage and skill. 

In 1807 his popularity was largely destroyed for a time 
by his supposed connection with the enterprise of Aaron 
Burr. 

Governor Shelby appointed him adjutant-general of 
the Kentucky troops, and sent him to New Orleans with 
the brevet rank of brigadier-general. At the battle of 
Januar}' 8, 181 5, General Thomas, the senior officer, 
being indisposed, General Adair commanded the Ken- 
tuckians. 

General Jackson having placed some slur upon the 
Kentucky troops on that occasion, the contest was taken 
up by General Adair, and resulted in an acrimonious con- 
troversy, in which General Adair maintained, in a most 
creditable manner, the reputation of the Kentucky troops. 

On the loth of February, 18 16, the legislature passed 
a vote of thanks to General Adair for his gallantry at the 
battle of New Orleans, and "more particularly for the 
deep interest he took in vindicating a respectable portion 



The Battle of the Thames 127 

of the troops of Kentucky from the Hbelous imputation 
of cowardice most unjustly thrown upon them by General 
Andrew Jackson." 

In 1820 he was elected governor of Kentucky, defeat- 
ing Judge Logan, General Desha, and Colonel Butler, and 
receiving 20,493 votes as against 19.947 for William Logan, 
12,419 for Joseph Desha, and 9,567 for Anthony Butler. 

He died at White Hall, his home, in Mercer County, 
in May, 1840. His remains were removed in 1S72 to the 
cemetery at Frankfort, where the State erected over his 
grave a monument with the following inscription: 

NORTH SIDE. 

John Adair, born in Chester District, South Carolina, January 
9, 1757; died at White Hall, Mercer County, Kentucky, May, 
1840, aged eighty-three years. 

This monument is erected by the people of Kentucky in pur- 
suance of a resolution of the General Assembly approved March 
5, 1872, as a mark of their appreciation for his services as a 
soldier and statesman. 

WEST SIDE. 

As A Statesman — Previous to his removal from South Caro- 
lina served as a member of the convention which revised the 
Constitution of the United States. Becoming a citizen of Ken- 
tucky he represented the county of Mercer in the legislature of 
1795-6; afterwards frequently a member of both house and senate. 
In 1805 he was elected to United States Senate to fill an unex- 
pired term. In 1820 was elected governor, and served the term 



128 The Battle of the Thames 

of four years. In 183 1 served a term in United States Congress 
from Mercer District. 

He sleeps the sleep of the brave and just. 

EAST SIDE. 

As A Soldier — He entered the Revolutionary Army at the age 
of seventeen; served through the war first as private, afterwards 
aide-de-camp to General Sumpter. Moved to Kentucky 1787, 
participated in Indian campaigns, 1791-2-4; the war with Great 
Britain 1812-15. He commanded Kentucky troops at New 
Orleans as brigadier-general under General Jackson 1S14-15. 

SOUTH SIDE. 

Catherine Adair, wife of John Adair, born near Charleston, 
South Carolina, October 17, 1768. Died at Montrose, near Frank- 
fort, Kentucky, September 24, 1854, and was buried at White 
Hall by the side of her husband. Her remains have been removed 
to this spot and now rest in the same grave with his after a union 
in life of fifty years. 

In death they are not divided. 

General James Allen. 

General James Allen, who commanded the Fourth 
Brigade, was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, in 1770. 
His father was a Revolutionary soldier and died while on 
his way with his family from Virginia to Kentucky. After 
some delay the family, consisting of four boys and one 
girl, settled near Houstonville, Lincoln County, and later 
removed to Green County. 




General JAMES ALLEN. 



The Battle of the Thames 129 

He enjoyed the benefits of a very thorough educa- 
tion, and could read the New Testament in the original 
Greek, having attended New Providence Academy, in 
Staunton, Virginia. After reading law in Virginia he 
concluded his course under Judges Sebastian and Ormsby 
in Kentucky. 

He was admitted to the bar before he was twenty years 
of age, and practiced his profession in Lincoln, Washing- 
ton, and Madison counties, and last in Green County. 

For a long time he was clerk of the County and Quar- 
ter Sessions Courts. After his removal to Green County 
that section of country was constantly molested by roving 
bands of Indians. He organized a company of mounted 
riflemen to repress these Indian invasions and to punish 
the perpetrators of these outrages. 

In 181 1 he commanded the Tenth Brigade of State 
Militia. His brigade consisted of two regiments, formed 
of the companies from the counties of Lincoln, Garrard, 
Mercer, Madison, and Shelby. 

He was elected president of an independent bank at 
Greensburg, the county seat of Green, but after conducting 
it a short time became satisfied the conditions surrounding 
the bank were not such as to justify its continued exist- 
ence, and promptly placed its affairs in liquidation, which 
was accomplished without loss to the stockholders. 



130 The Battle of the Thames 

He was a man of splendid appearance, six feet two 
inches tall, well proportioned, fine forehead, and a most 
affable manner, great firmness and absolute courage. He 
was extremely popular in all the section where he was 
known. 

Having gone on horseback from Greensburg to Lebanon 
to attend to some business, upon his return home, in some 
unknown way he fell from his horse. He was found dead 
about a mile from his residence, the probabilities being 
that by an overhanging limb he had in the night been 
knocked from his horse and killed by the fall. 

When Governor Shelby resolved to lead the Kentucky 
troops which had been summoned by his proclamation of 
July 31, 1813, he wrote pressing letters and sent a dis- 
patch to Allen begging that he would accompany him in 
the campaign. Allen secured as many volunteers as pos- 
sible and promptly reported at Newport and at Urbana. 
On the 8th of September he was made brigadier-general 
and assigned to a brigade composed of the regiments 
commanded by Davenport and Calloway. 




Colonel GEOKGE TKOTTER. 



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Colonel George Trotter. 



Colonel George Trotter was born in Augusta County, 
Virginia, and came with his father to Lexington, Ken- 
tucky. His people emigrated from the north of Ireland to 
Philadelphia, thence to Virginia and then to Kentucky. 
He was born November 8, 1778; died October 13, 1815. 

He engaged with his father in the hemp-bagging busi- 
ness, and also in the manufacture of powder. The 
Trotters were wealthy, brave, and patriotic, and George 
Trotter was among the first of Kentucky's sons to answer 
his country's call in 1812. 

He raised a company for Simrall's Dragoons and 
entered the service August 27, 181 2. He did superb 
service in the Fort Wayne campaign, and returned honored 
and beloved by all who knew him. 

His popularity and reputation were such that when a 
last call was made he had no difficulty in enlisting a large 
number of men in Fayette, Jessamine, Scott, and Wood- 
ford. The captains in his regiment were splendid patriots 
who had seen service and who gladly rallied to his banner. 
The material in his regiment was unsurpassed and the 
morale of his troops superb. 

Governor Shelby was glad to appoint the brilliant, 
dashing young man the colonel of the first regiment, and 



132 The Battle of the Thames 

when General Calmes, from sickness, was unable to lead 
the first brigade, that task fell to Trotter. He was 
singularly handsome, six feet three inches in height, and 
with the face and bearing of an ideal soldier. There 
was no sacrifice too great and no danger too imminent 
for him to face and meet, and on the march and in the 
battle his presence was an inspiration. 

His brigade and regiment were assigned the places of 
greatest peril, and gladly he and his men sought such 
conditions. He returned from the war full of honors and 
applause. Distinguished, brave, successful, and wealthy, 
he was married to a beautiful, cultured, and brilliant 
woman who bore him two sons, and with whom life seemed 
radiant of hope and promise; but just when peace had 
come and his country was at rest, death claimed him. 
His father had built for him the beautiful home standing 
in the Lexington Park or Chautauqua. He came to it 
only to die. Within a week from the hour he entered 
into its possession death broke in with its crushing hand, 
and he was laid in state within the walls where he had 
hoped for a long and happy life. 

In a beautiful woodland across from his home they laid 
him to rest, building over him a brick mausoleum and 
covering it with earth. Forty years later Federal soldiers 
who were camping about it mistook the tomb for an 




General D.WID CHILES. 



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Indian mound, and an excavation was made, to find his 
coffin decayed and his ashes resting on the bricks. 
Forty years after this some boys, playing on the mound, 
led by curiosity, dug into it and carried away his skull 
and coffin-plate. A vigorous outcry caused these to be 
returned, and now his dust again reposes peacefully in the 
neglected tomb. 

General Harrison presented to Colonel Trotter's regi- 
ment the brass drum of the Forty-first British Infantry, 
of which so large a part was captured at the Thames, 
and with its inscription it was long the most prized of all 
the relics and memories of the Forty-second Regiment, 
Kentucky Militia, to which Trotter's men in large part 
belonged. 

The following inscription was painted on the drum : 

Presented by General Harrison and Governor Shelby to 
Colonel George Trotter, for the Forty-second Kentucky Regiment 
Militia, as a testimonial of its patriotism and good conduct, and for 
having furnished more volunteers than any other regiment. 

General David Chiles. 

David Chiles, who commanded the second brigade in 
Governor Shelby's army, was born in Virginia, August 
23, 1767, and migrated to Kentucky prior to 1790. He 
came with some means, and purchased an estate near the 



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town of Minerva, in Mason County, close to the Bracken 
County line. From the profusion of cane found on his 
place he called it "Caneland. " It is the highest point 
between Vanceburg and Newport, Kentucky. 

On the loth of February, 1791, he married Frances, 
the daughter of Reverend Louis Craig, and with her 
received a dowry of land which gave him nearly fifteen 
hundred acres as his possession. He built a mill and 
distillery on Raccoon Branch of Bracken Creek, and was 
extremely prosperous. He held no office, but was a man 
of great intelligence and courage, and commanded in a 
high degree the confidence of his fellow-citizens. He 
was a mihtia officer in Mason County, and promptly 
responded to Governor Shelby's call for troops. Mason 
County sent three companies, and Greenup, Nicholas, 
Bracken, and Campbell had so strongly volunteered Gov- 
ernor Shelby thought it due this section to have a brigadier- 
general, and David Chiles was appointed to that position. 

He is buried on his own farm, having provided in his 
will for the erection of a stone wall about the family bury- 
ing-ground. A plain slab with his name, the dates of his 
birth and death, constitutes the monument that marks his 
grave. He died in 1834. 




WILLIAM I. 1;AKK\. Posimasti-k-GeiNKKal, 
From a painting by C. H. Kiii}<. 



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Major William T. Barry. 

Major William T. Barry, one of the most remarkable 
men who ever lived in Kentucky, was born in Virginia, 
February 5, 1783. At a very early age he came to Ken- 
tucky with his father and settled first in Fayette and after- 
ward in Jessamine County. He attended school at Wood- 
ford Academy, graduated at Transylvania University, and 
commenced the practice of law in Lexington when twenty- 
one years of age. He was one of the most brilliant and 
eloquent men of the period in which he lived. From 1805 
to 1835 his life was a series of wonderful successes. For- 
tune appeared to lavish upon him her richest gifts and 
noblest rewards. 

In his twenty-first year he was elected to fill a vacancy 
in the legislature of Kentucky from Fayette County, and 
re-elected in 1809. He was chosen to represent the Ash- 
land District in Congress in 18 10, and again in 18 14. He 
also represented it in the legislature. In the discussion of 
the matters which led up to the War of 18 12, no man was 
more eloquent, earnest, brilliant, and patriotic. His 
speeches won the admiration and confidence of all parties. 
His courage and gallantry while serving on the staff of Gov- 
ernor Shelby as his secretary merited and received the 
gratitude and approval of his chief. The people of Ken- 



136 The Battle of the Thames 

tucky recognized in him not only a brilliant statesman but 
an unselfish patriot. 

When twenty-seven he became speaker of the Ken- 
tucky House of Representatives. He represented Ken- 
tucky in the senate for two sessions, 18 14-16, and then 
resigned to accept the circuit judgeship. In 181 7 he was 
forced to stand as a candidate for the State senate. His 
magnetic power and influence enabled him, while in the 
Kentucky Senate, to secure aid for Transylvania University, 
in which he was lecturer in the Law Department. His 
name gave the law school wide prestige and success. 

In 1820 he was elected Heutenant-governor by an over- 
whelming majority, and at that time was unquestionably 
the most popular man in Kentucky. He was appointed 
chief justice of the "New Court" in 1825, and held the 
place until the repeal of the "New Court" act in 1826. 
A candidate for governor in 1828, he was defeated by only 
seven hundred and nine votes, but his splendid presence, 
superb eloquence, and the influence resulting from his 
canvass caused the State, in the following year, to cast 
7,934 votes for Andrew Jackson. 

He was appointed postmaster-general by Jackson, and 
held the office until declining health caused him to 
surrender it. In the hope that a change of location and 
a milder climate might restore his health, Judge Barry 



The Battle of the Thames 137 

was sent by President Jackson as Minister to Spain. He 
sailed for his post, and died at Liverpool, England, in 1835. 
In 1854, by act of the legislature, the remains of Judge 
Barry were disinterred, brought to Kentucky, and buried 
in the State lot at Frankfort. His friends erected a monu- 
ment to his memory in the courthouse yard at Lexington. 
The State erected a headstone over his grave. 

Colonel George Walker. 

Governor Shelby appointed Colonel George Walker, of 
Jessamine County, his inspector-general. He was admi- 
rably fitted for this responsible post. He came from 
Culpeper County, Virginia, where he was born, and settled 
in Kentucky in 1794. He began the practice of law in 
Nicholasville, Kentucky, in 1799, and was the second 
lawyer to open an office in the new county seat. 

Colonel Walker was of distinguished lineage. His 
mother was a sister of David Meade, of Chaumiere, and 
this fact doubtless induced his permanent residence in 
Jessamine. A man of wide learning and attractive manners, 
he wielded a great influence in Central Kentucky, and he 
enjoyed in a high degree Governor Shelby's confidence 
and esteem. When a mere lad he had fought at Cowpens, 
Guilford Courthouse, and Yorktown. Brave as the 
bravest he had battled for his country's liberties with 



138 The Battle of the Thames 

superb courage and gallantry. He had answered every 
call his country made, and was among the first to respond 
in the War of 181 2. He represented Jessamine County 
in the Kentucky Senate in 18 10, and held this position 
when he followed Kentucky's governor to the Thames. 

He married a daughter of General John Coffee, of 
Tennessee, and was the father of quite a family when he 
volunteered. He died on his farm, near Nicholasville, in 
1819. 

The regard of Governor Shelby for the patriotism of 
Colonel Walker was again manifested by his appointing 
him to fill a vacancy in the senate of the United States 
in 1814. He remained in the senate until 1815. 

He was one of the commissioners appointed to survey 
and locate the line between Kentucky and Tennessee, 
and the line was afterward known as Walker's line. 

He was one of the first men to respond to Governor 
Shelby's call, and to his influence and that of Captain 
Augustine Bower was attributable in large degree the 
prompt and enthusiastic response of Jessamine County in 
this campaign; although a small county it sent two full 
companies, which were assigned to Trotter's regiment. 

Colonel Walker was buried on his farm, now the 
property of Melancthon Young, Esq., about one mile east 
of Nicholasville. The monument built over him has long 



The Battle of the Thames 139 

since fallen down, and the exact spot of his burial is 
now unknown. 

Charles A. Wickliffe. 

Among those present at the Thames was Charles A. 
Wickliffe, then in his twenty-fifth year. He was born on 
the present site of Springfield, the county seat of Wash- 
ington County, on June 8, 1788. He died, while on a 
visit, at the home of his son-in-law. Judge Richard T. 
Merrick, in Maryland, on the 31st of October, 1869. 

He came of the best pioneer stock. His mother was 
a sister of Colonel John Hardin, who was sent as a Peace 
Commissioner to the Indians of Ohio, where he was killed 
and where he had gone against his protest, assured that 
his life would be taken, but ready to serve his commander 
and his country however and whenever called upon. 
Beginning his practice of law at Bardstown, Mr. Wick- 
liffe, at the commencement of the War of 181 2, volun- 
teered as a private, but was appointed aide to General 
Winlock. 

In 181 2 and 1813 he was elected to represent Nelson 
County in the Kentucky Legislature. Again he volunteered 
as a private in the company of his relative, Martin D. 
Hardin, who was recruiting in Washington County, and 
was subsequently given a place upon the staff of General 



140 The Battle of the Thames 

Samuel Caldwell, to whom he rendered valuable services, 
not only in the preceding campaign but at the battle of 
the Thames. 

He was a member of Congress from 1823 to 1833, 
and from 1861 to 1863; again a member of the legis- 
lature in 1833, 1834, and 1835, and in 1834 was chosen 
speaker of the house of representatives, after an 
exciting contest. 

In 1836 he was elected lieutenant-governor, and on 
the death of Governor James Clark, August 27, 1839, he 
succeeded to the governorship, being duly installed on 
September 5th. He filled the office to the close of the 
term with great credit. 

He was postmaster-general in the cabinet of Tyler 
and member of the Constitutional Convention of 1849, 
and of the Peace Conference in February, 1861; and in 
the face of threats of arrest and imprisonment he made 
the race as Democratic candidate for governor in August, 
1863, but was defeated by Thomas E. Bramlette. 

He rests in the cemetery at Bardstown, Kentucky. 




J. J. CKITTENDEN. 



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John J. Crittenden. 

Among the heroes and extraordinary men who took 
part in this illustrious conflict was John J. Crittenden, son 
of a Revolutionary soldier. He was born in Woodford 
County, September 6, 1786. 

In his early Hfe he moved to Russellville, Logan 
County, and was elected to the legislature from that 
county in 181 1, and had conferred upon him the extra- 
ordinary honor of being elected to the house of repre- 
sentatives for six consecutive terms, and was twice made 
speaker of the house, once unanimously. 

In 18 1 7 he was elected United States senator; he was 
then the youngest member of that body. He was twice 
attorney-general of the United States, once under Harri- 
son and once under Fillmore. He was again elected to 
the senate in 1843, and resigned to run for governor of 
Kentucky, and was elected in 1848. In 1849 he resigned 
to become attorney-general in President Taylor's cabinet. 

In 1853 he was elected to the United States Senate for 
the term ending 1861, and in 1861 was elected represent- 
ative, and was a member of that body until the time of 
his death, on the 25th of July, 1863. 

He was one of the most eloquent men that Kentucky 
ever produced. Upon his election to the senate he was 



142 The Battle of the Thames 

deemed, although very young, to be a fitting colleague for 
Henry Clay. In public life for fifty-two years, and having 
attained the highest honors in the legal profession, even 
his enemies admitted his uprightness as a statesman and 
his power as an orator. 

Crittenden County, formed in 1842, was named in his 
honor. 

Colonel William Whitley. 

Among the remarkable historical men who took part in 
this battle was William Whitley, a famous Kentucky pio- 
neer. He was born in Virginia, August 17, 1749, and moved 
to Kentucky in 1775. He lived first at Boonesborough, then 
at Harrod's Fort, and finally, in 1781, built what was 
known as Whitley's Fort, two miles northwest of Crab 
Orchard. He surveyed and preempted large tracts of 
land in this neighborhood, and, it is said, here built the 
first brick house ever erected in the State. He paid for 
this brick house in land; he gave one man five hundred 
acres, in Lincoln County, for the construction of the brick- 
work; another a farm for the whisky which was furnished 
to the workmen during the time consumed in the con- 
struction of the building. Although erected one hundred 
and thirteen years ago, the house is still in a perfect state 
of preservation, and is now occupied as a residence. 



The Battle of the Thames 143 

He was a cousin of George Rogers Clark, and accom- 
panied him on one of his expeditions to Kentucky. 

It is said his wife was the third white woman to cross 
the Cumberland Mountains, and the daughter born to 
Whitley and his wife in Boonesborough was one of the first 
white children born in Kentucky. The child was named 
Levisa, once the name of the Big Sandy River. 

Colonel Whitley laid out the first race track in Ken- 
tucky, called his home Sportsman's Hall, and here he 
entertained many of the most distinguished men in the 
early history of Kentucky, among them Boone, Logan, 
George Rogers Clark, McDowell, and Harrison. 

Whitley County, created in 18 18, was called in honor 
of Colonel Whitley, and its county seat, Williamsburg, 
formerly known as Whitley Courthouse, was doubtless so 
called from Whitley's first name. 

Colonel Whitley was one of the most adventurous of 
the pioneers who had come to Kentucky. In 1775, while 
farming in a small way in Virginia, he told his wife that he 
had heard splendid reports of Kentucky; that he thought 
they could get their living there with less hard work. In 
a few days they started out through the wilderness to take 
up their residence in this new country. 

Thoroughly acquainted with Indian methods, brave as 
a lion, he allowed no Indian aggression or invasion to go 



144 ^^^^ Battle of the Thames 

unpunished. He was engaged in seventeen battles, res- 
cued many captives, and in 1794, with Major Orr, organ- 
ized what was known as the Nickerjack Expedition, in 
which the Tennessee Indians were severely punished for 
their forays into Kentucky. 

Colonel Whitley and Major Orr marched with seven 
hundred men, with great secrecy and dispatch. They 
attacked the Indians suddenly, defeated them with much 
slaughter, burned their town, and destroyed their crops. 

Although a private in Captain James Davidson's com- 
pany of Colonel Richard M. Johnson's regiment, he was 
designated by Colonel Johnson to command "The Forlorn 
Hope," the members of which exhibited as noble a courage, 
as splendid a sacrifice, and as magnificent a patriotism as 
ever marked human conduct. 

The night before the battle of the Thames he 
imparted to General Desha and to his bosom friend, 
John Preston, his presentiment that on the morrow he 
would die. Two hours before his death he killed three 
Indians across the river Thames and swam his horse to 
obtain their scalps, which were returned to Kentucky in 
his grip-sack after his death. 

It was claimed by some of his friends that he fired 
the shot which killed Tecumseh; the weight of histori- 
cal evidence is against this fact. When John Preston, 



The Battle of the Thames 145 

his friend, brought back his riderless horse to the widowed 
wife, she threw her arms in great despair around the 
animal's neck, and with weeping bewailed her desolate fate. 

At the time of the battle of the Thames, Whitley 
was sixty-three years of age — exactly that of Governor 
Shelby. 

Whitley might have had any command he desired in 
the army, but he had volunteered, on May 20, 1813, for 
six months' service, and with many of his neighbors and 
friends entered as a private in Captain James Davidson's 
company, 

Whitley often exercised a poetic talent, and some of 
his doggerel has been preserved. On his powderhorn 
was inscribed these lines : 

William Whitley, I am your horn, 
The truth I love, a lie I scorn; 
Fill me with the best of powder, 
rie make your rifle crack the louder. 

See how the dread, terrifick ball 
Makes Indians bleed and Toreys fall; 
You with powder I'le supply 
For to defend your liberty. 

He might well have claimed exemption from military 
service after all he had done for the wresting of Ken- 
tucky from the savage, but his brave, valiant spirit carried 



146 The Battle of the Thames 

him into the war, and, after fighting in twoscore battles, 
he gave up his life for his country on foreign soil and 
sleeps in an unknown and unmarked grave hundreds of 
miles from the home he had made such sacrifices and 
endured such privations to win from the red man. 

James Johnson. 

James Johnson, the elder brother of Colonel Richard 
M. Johnson, was born in Orange County, Virginia, on 
January i, 1774, and died at Washington, District of 
Columbia, August 13, 1826, being then a member of the 
House of Representatives. 

He was a member of the Kentucky Senate from 1803 
to 181 1 — his father being at the same time a member of 
the house — presidential elector in 182 1, and elected to 
Congress in 1824. He was among the first as well as the 
bravest of the sons of Kentucky who responded to the 
nation's call for volunteers for the War of 181 2. He 
raised a company of mounted militia, and without waiting 
for the regular enlistment and for the organization of the 
battalion, hastened away to answer the call of General 
Harrison, who then, in order to relieve Fort Wayne, 
needed the assistance of every patriot. 

It was he who trained the celebrated regiment of his 
brother. Colonel Richard M. Johnson, and taught its riders 




Colonel JAMES JOHNSON. 



The Battle of the Thames 147 

to charge the lines of the enemy with their terrible cavalry, 
break through his lines, form in the rear, and deal unex- 
pected death from that quarter. It was this maneuver 
that gained the battle of the Thames. 

He was a man of great dignity and suavity of manner, 
and dispensed, at his home in Scott County, true Ken- 
tucky hospitality. He rests in the Johnson family ceme- 
tery at Great Crossings, on the road between Georgetown 
and Frankfort. 

Colonel John Calloway. 

John Calloway was born August 24, 1775. His grand- 
father, Richard Calloway, was the friend and companion 
of Boone, and came with him to Boonesborough in 1775. 
He was killed near the fort, in 1778, while sitting on a 
stump in a clearing he had made. Betsy and Frances 
Calloway, captured by the Indians at Boonesborough in 
1776, and rescued by Boone and others, were daughters 
of Richard Calloway, the grandfather of John. 

When eight years of age John Calloway was captured 
by the Indians and carried to Chillicothe, Ohio. After 
three years' life with the Indians he was ransomed by a 
trader and returned to his family. He never held any 
civil position, but volunteered early in the War of 181 2, 
and served his country as a soldier. 



148 The Battle of the Thames 

He settled in Henry County, Kentucky, where he 
erected, on a large body of bluegrass land he owned, a 
family residence that was in advance of its times. Here 
he died July 25, 1825. 

On the 29th of August, 181 2, he was appointed major 
in Colonel John Thomas's regiment, Kentucky mounted 
militia. This regiment was composed of men recruited in 
Henry, Shelby, and adjoining counties, and served in the 
Ohio campaigns. The command was enlisted for sixty 
days. When Governor Shelby issued his call for volun- 
teers he raised a company in Henry County and marched 
it to Urbana, Ohio, where the regiments were formed, and 
where he was made colonel of the eighth regiment. 

Colonel Calloway was a man of most imposing appear- 
ance, six feet three inches in height. He died very 
suddenly, and is buried on his home place near Smith- 
field, Kentucky, where a plain headstone records the dates 
of his birth and death. 

Philip Barbour. 

Philip Barbour commanded the second Kentucky regi- 
ment. This regiment of Kentucky militia was enlisted 
from September i, 1812, to December 4, 181 2. He was 
born in Culpeper County, Virginia, on June 27, 1770. In 
early life he moved to Jefferson County, Kentucky, and 



The Battle of the Thames 149 

engaged in mercantile pursuits at Middletovvn. He had 
for one of his clerks Zachary Taylor, afterward so distin- 
guished in the war with Mexico, and later President of the 
United States. At the time of the settlement of Jefferson 
County Middletown was considered a more prosperous 
and prominent center than Louisville. 

He became a large landholder in Jefferson County, and 
married, first, Lucy, daughter of Commodore Richard 
Taylor, and sister of President Zachary Taylor. Com- 
modore Taylor was a distinguished officer in the American 
navy, and resided at Louisville for many years previous 
to his death. 

After the death of his wife, in 1806, Colonel Barbour 
removed to Henderson, Kentucky, where he married Eliza- 
beth Branch, daughter of General Samuel Hopkins, a 
distinguished Revolutionary soldier, for whom Hopkins 
County was named. General Hopkins had fought in the 
battles of Princeton, Trenton, Monmouth, and German- 
town. He had come to Kentucky in 1797, and settled on 
Green River. He commanded two expeditions, in October 
and November, 181 2, which, however, produced no satis- 
factory results. Colonel Barbour promptly responded to 
Governor Shelby's call and recruited a company in Hen- 
derson County, of which he became captain. At Urbana 
he was made colonel of the regiment. 



i^o The Battle of the Thames 

While engaged in a business trip to Corydon, Indiana, 
Colonel Barbour died there on October 6, 1818, and is 
buried at that place. 

His eldest child was Major Philip Norbourne Barbour, 
who graduated at West Point in 1834. He was killed at 
the head of his company while storming the breastworks 
at Monterey, September 19, 1846. He is buried in the 
State lot at Frankfort, and his name is on the monument 
erected by the Commonwealth to her distinguished sons. 

Colonel Henry Renick. 

In the very earliest years of the last century, Henry 
Renick came to Barren County from Maryland, and 
acquired a large landed estate near Hiseville. 

He was active in the militia, and early in the War of 
181 2 raised a battalion of mounted men, which served 
in Illinois. The battalion was sworn into service Sep- 
tember 18, 18 1 2, to remain until November 4th of that 
year. His command consisted of three companies 
recruited in Barren and adjoining counties. 

When Governor Shelby made his appeal to Ken- 
tuckians to avenge the massacre of Raisin and Fort 
Meigs, Major Renick was quick to respond, and at 
Urbana, on the organization of Governor Shelby's army, 
he was made colonel of the fifth regiment, composed of 



The Battle of the Thames 151 

Wickliffe's company from Nelson, Hornbeck's of Bullitt, 
Moss's of Green, Kinson's of Adair, and Robertson's of 
Waslifngton. Captain William R. McGary's company was 
subsequently added to the regiment, when the army had 
reached Portage. 

About 1820, Colonel Renick removed to Missouri. 
The records in Barren County show numerous transfers 
of land after his leaving Barren, but do not indicate 
in what part of Missouri he resided. 

He and Colonel Taul are the only colonels in the 
battle who sleep in death outside of Kentucky. 

The material in the regiment of Colonel Renick 
was of the best class of men from Nelson, Green, and 
Bullitt, and were among the best fighting men who 
went into the campaign. 

He was thrice elected to the legislature from Barren, 
in 1806-15-18. 

Colonel William Williams. 

Colonel William Williams, who commanded the 
eleventh regiment, was born in Virginia on the 20th of 
March, 1788, and died in Madison County, Kentucky, in 
1834. He lived on a farm about eight miles southwest of 
Richmond, on the line of the Kentucky Central, near 
Red House. He married Charlotte Reed, a woman of 



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great refinement and culture. Alexander Campbell, in his 
notes on Kentucky travel, says that Mrs. Williams was 
one of the most refined and cultured women he ever met. 

He was cashier of the first bank founded at Rich- 
mond, Kentucky. His funeral, which occurred in 1834, 
was one of the largest ever known in Madison County. 

He was a man of splendid judgment and fine informa- 
tion, taking great interest in military matters, and it was 
to this he was indebted for his promotion from private 
to colonel. He volunteered as a private. He was first 
made major of the eleventh regiment, but subsequently, 
from some cause or other Colonel George R. C. Floyd 
failing to serve. Major Williams was appointed colonel 
of the regiment. 

He was buried on the old family place near Red 
House, and his grave is unmarked. 

John Donaldson. 

(Originally Spelled Danneldson.) 

John Donaldson was born in Berkeley County, Virginia, 
in 1769. His father moved to Kentucky and settled 
in Clark County, near Strode's Station. The fort being 
besieged by the Indians, Colonel Donaldson's father, in 
passing by a port-hole while inside of the fort, was 
killed by a shot fired by an Indian through the hole. 



The Battle of the Thames 153 

His mother subsequently married Colonel John Flem- 
ing, for whom Fleming County and Flemingsburg, its 
county seat, were named, and who in 1790 established 
Fleming's Station. 

Colonel Fleming engaged in the pursuit of the 
Indians who had attacked Strode's Station, and at 
Battle Run, near the Upper Blue Licks, in Fleming 
County, in an engagement with the Indians was badly 
wounded, but escaped almost miraculously. An Indian 
approached Colonel Fleming, supposing him to be badly 
wounded, and fired, but when he had reached a distance of 
some six or eight feet from him, Colonel Fleming shot him 
dead and the Indian lay on the opposite side of the log 
from which Colonel Fleming was lying. His mare, which 
was a favorite, came running up, and in response to 
her master's whistle she came to his side. Colonel 
Fleming was barely able to throw himself over her back 
like a bag, and was carried by the faithful animal out 
of the fight. Colonel Fleming died in 1794. 

Colonel Donaldson represented Clark County in the 
legislature in 1803 and 181 7. 

He lived on the road between Paris and Winches- 
ter, about six miles from Winchester, owned a large farm 
there, and died in 1829. He was a general in the Kentucky 
militia. 



154 "^^^^ Battle of tlie Thames 

Some fifteen years since his remains were removed to 
Flemingsburg and buried in the cemetery there. A head- 
stone has been erected, on which is the following inscrip- 
tion : 

Sacred to the memory of General John Donaldson, who was 
born in Berkley, Virginia, January gth, A. D., 1769, and departed 
this life August 24th, A. D., 1829, aged sixty years, seven months 
and fifteen days. He was loved and respected, and died la- 
mented. 

Clark County, where he was residing during the War 
of 1812, made a most magnificent record. The county 
sent twelve companies into that war. More than nine 
hundred men, at various times, volunteered from the 
county for service in that conflict. 

Colonel Donaldson was a man of fine presence, 
great intelligence, and always exhibited the very highest 
patriotism. 

Colonel William Montjoy. 

Colonel William Montjoy, who commanded the fourth 
regiment, was born in Stafford County, Virginia, April 
29, 1774. 

He represented Pendleton County in the Kentucky 
Senate in 1820-22-23, and was a member of the house 
of representatives in 1809. He died in Williamstown, 
Grant County, Kentucky, February 17, 1823. 



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He settled in Pendleton County in 1795. He raised a 
company in Pendleton County upon the call of Governor 
Shelby, July 31, 1813. 

In April, 1820, he was appointed by Governor Adair 
surveyor for Grant County, to which place he moved 
about 181 7. His will, probated in 1823, is remarkable 
from the fact that he gave all his slaves their freedom 
within periods prescribed by that instrument. 

He was one of the first settlers in Williamstown, and 
occupied one of the three houses in Williamstown in 1820, 
and kept a tavern at that place. He purchased a farm 
a short distance from Williamstown, on which place he 
resided at the time of his death. He is supposed to be 
buried in the old cemetery on the Covington and Lexing- 
ton Pike, about two miles north of Williamstown. His 
grave, so far as can be known, is unmarked. 

That he was patriotic is attested by the fact that he 
was among the first soldiers in Kentucky who volunteered 
in the War of 18 12. In the early part of the war he 
served as a private, and was severely frostbitten in the 
Fort Wayne campaign. He was brave and patient, and 
possessed a high degree of courage. 



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Colonel Richard Davenport. 

Of Richard Davenport very meager details are obtain- 
able. He settled, in the early history of Kentucky, in 
Mercer County, near Danville, coming from Spottsylvania 
County, Virginia, and died before the creation of Boyle 
County, in 1842. 

He was prominent in the Kentucky militia from 1800 
to 18 1 2, and commanded a company in the early part of the 
War of 18 1 2. He was a man of great dignity of manner 
and speech, with the high type of chivalry and courage 
incident to the men of his social status of that period. 

He kept a tavern near Danville for some years. In 
those days many of the leading men of the Commonwealth 
kept houses of entertainment. 

At the call of Governor Shelby for volunteers, on July 
31, 181 3, Colonel Davenport, who lived only six miles from 
the governor's home, promptly enlisted. His personal 
acquaintance with Governor Shelby and his previous mili- 
tary experience suggested him as a valuable leader. 

His daughter, Eliza, in 1823, married Honorable James 
Harlan. His grandson. Honorable John M. Harlan, is 
now Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United 
States. Judge Harlan was appointed to this position by 
President Hayes in 1877. 



The Battle of tJie Thames 157 

Colonel Davenport died about September, 1818. His 
will was dated April 25, 181 7, and probated October 18, 
1818. 

He had some part in the donation of the land on which 
the First Presbyterian Church of Danville was built. His 
wife survived him thirty years. 

He was buried in the grounds attached to the First 
Presbyterian Church, Danville; but with the going of years 
the marks of the graves have been obliterated, and only 
those of Ephraim McDowell and David Rice, whose 
remains were reinterred there a few years since, are 
capable of identification. 

He recruited a company in Mercer County in response 
to Governor Shelby's call, and the names of its members 
indicate that the best blood and material of Mercer 
answered Captain Davenport's patriotic call. 

At Urbana he was appointed by Governor Shelby 
colonel of the sixth regiment. This regiment consisted 
of his own company, from Mercer, Miller's of Lincoln, 
Faulkner's of Garrard, and Coffee's of Casey — only four 
companies with four hundred men, but all of the best 
possible stuff, and ready under all circumstances to meet 
every call of duty. 



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Colonel James Simrall. 

Colonel James Simrall, who commanded the ninth 
regiment, was a resident of Shelby County, and had 
been a patriotic and active soldier of the War of 18 12. 
He had the good fortune to command two regiments. 
The first of these, known as the First Regiment of Light 
Dragoons, was enlisted on the 27th of August, 181 2, and 
its time expired on the 31st of October of the same year. 
George Trotter, who commanded the first regiment at 
the Thames, was a captain in this First Regiment. 

Colonel Simrall was born March 18, 1781, in West 
Chester, Pennsylvania, but removed from there to Culpeper 
County, Virginia, thence to Shelby County, Kentucky, in 
1792, and settled a mile east of Shelbyville, He died 
September 9, 1823. 

He was in service for his State and country during 
almost the entire period of the war. His regiment 
entered active service about the 17th of September, 181 2, 
under General Harrison, and contained three hundred 
men, armed with muskets. 

On the 1 8th of September he attacked the town of 
Little Turtle, and executed his orders with such prompt- 
ness and dispatch that he received the thanks of General 
Harrison. 



The Battle of the Thames 159 

He was engaged in the battle of Mississiniway. They 
marched from FrankHnton, now Columbus, on the 25th of 
November, each man carrying ten days' rations and such 
forage as was possible. The weather was extraordinarily 
cold and the ground frozen and covered with snow. The 
night before the attack on the savages they marched all 
night. The night after the battle the command was 
attacked by the Indians. In this battle Captain Trotter, 
in command of a company of Colonel Simrall's regiment, 
who was afterward brigadier-general, commanding the 
First Brigade, exhibited great courage and gallantry, and 
Colonel Simrall was commended in a general order for 
the excellent disciphne of his regiment, which was deemed 
equal to that of any in America. 

When they returned to Greenville more than half of 
the command were rendered unfit for duty because of 
sickness or wounds. A general order was issued com- 
mending in the highest manner the troops composing 
the expedition. 

Colonel Simrall was one of the first to respond to the 
call of Governor Shelby in 1813, and owing to his experience 
and gallantry was made colonel of the regiment, composed 
largely of soldiers from Shelby and Franklin counties. 

He represented Shelby County in the senate from 
1814 to 18 18, and was largely instrumental in passing the 



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necessary legislation for the construction of the Louisville 
and Portland Canal. 

He was interested in the lead mines in Galena, 111., 
and in April, 1823, went to look after his business inter- 
ests, and died there. The place of his sepulture is 
unknown and unmarked. 

In Missouri and Mississippi a large number of his de- 
scendants are found. Horatio F. Simrall, of Mississippi, 
long one of the Supreme Court judges of that State; 
Reverend John G. Simrall, of Walnut Hill, Kentucky, so 
long a prominent minister of that church; Judge John G. 
Simrall, of Louisville, and others are his descendants. 

He was a man of great physical proportions, weighing 
three hundred and twenty-five pounds, with red hair and 
a ruddy complexion, and is said to have had the strongest 
voice in the army. He was a man of military instincts, 
a strict disciplinarian, and, tradition says, somewhat of a 
martinet. 

The sufferings of himself and his men in the Missis- 
siniway expedition were probably as severe as any ever 
experienced by any American troops. 

After the capture of the British soldiers at the battle 
of the Thames they were placed in his command, and he 
brought them to Portage, where they were turned over to 
Colonel George Croghan. 




Colonel MICAH TAL'L. 



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MiCAH Taul. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Micah Taul, of Wayne County, com- 
manded the seventh regiment. He had raised a company 
which was sworn into service August 23, 18 12, for six 
months, in Colonel Joshua Barbee's regiment. During the 
campaign Captain Taul won distinction for courage, tact, 
and military sagacity. 

When Governor Shelby called for volunteers in 18 13 
Captain Taul was amongst the earliest to respond, and 
in Wayne County he quickly organized a company of more 
than eighty men, who unanimously chose him as their 
captain. 

Upon reaching Urbana, he was appointed lieutenant- 
colonel of the seventh regiment, composed of his own 
company from Wayne, afterward commanded by Captain 
William Stephens, Captain Wood's and Captain Wilson's 
companies, from Cumberland, Captain Laughlin's of Knox, 
and Captain Tate's of Pulaski. Wilson and Laughlin were 
promoted to majors. Colonel Taul was born in Mont- 
gomery County, Maryland, May 14, 1785, and when the 
son was two years old his father moved to Fayette County, 
Kentucky, and settled on Marble Creek, twelve miles south 
of Lexington. When only sixteen years of age, in 1801, 
he was elected, by the magistrates, clerk of the county 



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court of Wayne County, and in a few months afterward 
was elected clerk of the Quarter Sessions Court. He was 
a candidate for Congress in 1812, and lost by a majority of 
sixty-two for his opponent, Judge Montgomery. In 18 14 
he defeated Montgomery by a majority of 1262. 

Without educational advantages, he became one of the 
most eflfective stump-speakers of his day. His courage was 
unquestioned, and as a lawyer he won much reputation. 

He moved from Monticello, which he named, to Win- 
chester, Kentucky, in 181 8, and from there to Winchester, 
Tennessee, in 1826. 

In 1846 Colonel Taul moved to Talladega, Alabama, 
where he practiced law, and died May 27, 1850. 

His grandsons were prominent in the civil war. 

Bradford commanded the Thirtieth Alabama Regiment ; 
another, Silas Parsons Bradford, was a captain, and Tipton 
Bradford also was in the Confederate service. 

He is buried at Mardisville, a short distance from 
Talladega, and a simple shaft marks his resting-place. 

Of the colonels, only two in death rest out of Kentucky, 
Colonel Taul in Alabama and Colonel Renick in Missouri. 




Colonel JOSEPH McOOWELL. 



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Joseph McDowell. 

Joseph McDowell, adjutant-general of the Kentucky 
troops, was of Scotch descent, the son of Judge Samuel 
McDowell, born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, Septem- 
ber 13, 1768, and moved to Kentucky with his father in 
1784. 

He was a private in Captain Brown's company, in 
General Scott's expedition in 1791, and with General 
Wayne at Fallen Timbers in 1794. He was later in 
both expeditions under General Hopkins. 

His good sense, great courage, and absolute self-con- 
trol, coupled with his military experience, caused General 
Shelby to appoint him adjutant-general. This position 
was of the greatest importance, in view of the lack of 
discipline and drill among the troops composing the 
command, and its importance was increased by the 
character of the country through which the forces were 
to march. 

Colonel McDowell performed the duties of the oflfice 
in such manner as to receive the highest commendation 
from both Governor Shelby and General Harrison. 

Colonel McDowell owned a large tract of land two 
miles from Danville, on the Lexington Pike. His chil- 
dren having left him, he moved to Danville in his later 



164 The Battle of the Thames 

years, and resided with his daughter, Mrs. Caleb Wallace. 
He died there January 27, 1856, in the eighty-seventh 
year of his age, and is buried in the Danville Cemetery. 
He left a reputation full of all that a good man could desire, 
and his name and example still live amongst the people 
with whom he was associated and by whom best known. 

Colonel Anthony Crockett. 

Among the most unique as well as most patriotic of 
the men who composed this army was Colonel Anthony 
Crockett, of Franklin County, a native of Virginia, born 
in Prince Edward County in 1756; in 1790 a member of 
the Virginia Legislature from Kentucky, and later, in 1 796 
and 1799, a member of the Kentucky House of Represent- 
atives from Franklin County. He had already rendered 
valiant service in the War of 181 2. He was, at the time 
of the organization of Governor Shelby's forces, fifty-seven 
years of age and exempt from all military duty, but 
between Colonel Crockett and Governor Shelby there 
existed a very warm friendship, and Colonel Crockett was 
amongst the first to volunteer to go and share whatever the 
campaign should bring to the hero of King's Mountain. 

Colonel Crockett had been sent a short time previously 
by Governor Shelby to Fort Meigs to impress upon the 
militia there the necessity and importance of remaining 



The Battle of the Thames 165 

in the field at least sixty days beyond their period of 
enhstment. It was thought that the sight of an old Revo- 
lutionary soldier and his fervid, patriotic words would 
induce the Kentuckians, then under General Harrison, to 
prolong their service, but neither Governor Shelby's written 
nor Colonel Crockett's spoken words could avail against 
the discontent which had been aroused by the unjust treat- 
ment which they had suffered at the hands of the war 
department. 

Colonel Crockett had served actively during the entire 
Revolutionary War. He enlisted in February, 1776, in 
the Seventh Virginia, and only left the army when peace 
had been declared. He was at White Plains, Brandy- 
wine, Monmouth, Saratoga, Germantown, Princeton, and 
Trenton, and in 1729 joined General George Rogers Clark 
at Vincennes, Indiana. He was with Logan in his pursuit 
at Blue Licks, and was a lieutenant in the Crockett or 
Illinois Regiment, commanded by his uncle. Colonel 
Joseph Crockett, and which played such a conspicuous 
part in the conquest and defense of the Northwest. At 
the battle of Brandywine, when LaFayette was severely 
wounded, he was taken by Colonel Crockett in his arms 
and borne to a place of safety. General LaFayette, when 
visiting Kentucky in 1825, recognized Colonel Joseph 
Crockett and Colonel Anthony Crockett when approach- 



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» 

ing him, and calling them by name, gave expression to his 
love for them, and putting his arms about each, tenderly 
kissed them. 

In the Indian War from 1782 to 1794 he was a gallant 
and courageous soldier. For thirty years he was the 
sergeant-at-arms of the Kentucky Senate, and died in 
1838, and is buried in the Benson Churchyard in Franklin 
County. 

He was a man of superb physique, six feet three inches 
in height, gentle by nature, but fearless and valiant in 
battle, and as he rode as brigade-major by the side of 
General John Edward King, commander of the Third 
Brigade, his presence was a noble object-lesson and his 
unselfish patriotism an inspiration to his comrades. 

Colonel Young Ewing. 

One of the most unique characters at the battle of the 
Thames was Colonel Young Ewing. He had raised a 
regiment on the early call for troops in the War of 181 2, 
which was mustered in on October 2, 18 12. 

In 1792 he was appointed one of three magistrates for 
Logan County, which was organized that year, and he 
represented the county in the legislature in 1795. He 
was said to have been a native of Virginia ; a man of 
strong intellect and great courage, but sometimes careless 



The Battle of the TJiames le-j 

in the use of the EngHsh language, especially when he 
was stumping. 

After Christian County was organized in 1796, being 
taken from Logan County, Colonel Ewing represented 
that county in the senate from 1808 to 181 2, 1S12 to 
1816; 1819 to 1823; 1823 to 1826, and in the house of 
representatives in 1800, 1801, 1802, 1806. He was one 
of the great politicians in that county, and was known 
as a "backwoods politician," a hunter, surveyor, and 
statesman. 

He was the first clerk of the Christian Circuit Court, 
and was in public office for more than a quarter of a 
century. He had commanded a regiment of mounted 
men through Indiana and Illinois in the early part of the 
War of 181 2, and his military record was of great 
advantage to him before the people. 

He was also cashier of the first bank established in 
Hopkinsville, and a member of the Constitutional Con- 
vention held in Frankfort, August 17, 1799, which formed 
the second Constitution, and was presidential elector in 
1824. He was defeated for the State senate in 1832, 
and afterward moved to Tennessee. 

A story has been told that when a candidate, par- 
ticularly if the campaign waxed hot and the election 
appeared doubtful, he would appear resting on a cane, 



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with one arm in a sling, telling in the most earnest way 
of the hardships of a soldier's life, but immediately after 
the election his infirmities speedily disappeared. 

He raised a company under Governor Shelby's call of 
July 31, 1813, and was appointed a brigade-major of the 
Fifth Brigade, commanded by General Samuel Caldwell. 
General Caldwell himself came from Christian County. 

Major James Suggett. 

Major James Suggett, one of the most courageous men 
who fought in the War of 18 12, was born in Orange 
County, Virginia, May 2, 1775. When five years of age 
his parents moved to Kentucky and settled near the Great 
Crossings, in Scott County. His sister, Jemima Suggett, 
was the mother of Colonel Richard M. Johnson, having 
married his father, Robert Johnson, in Orange County, 
Virginia, in 1770. 

Wild and reckless in his youth, he was converted at a 
great Baptist revival in 1800, and soon afterward com- 
menced preaching with great effect. He was finally 
ordained in 18 10. 

After the War of 181 2 he traveled extensively 
throughout the State, preaching as an evangelist. He 
died in Missouri, near Palmyra, on the 12th of October, 
1854. 



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His reputation as a brave and gallant soldier did much 
to influence and affect the people of his period. 

He was with Colonel Johnson at the formation of the 
first regiment, which he commanded in the War of 181 2. 
The organization of this first regiment, commanded by 
Colonel Johnson, was completed on the 30th of Septem- 
ber, 181 2, near Fort Wayne. He had command of a 
battalion composed of his brother James Johnson's com- 
pany and Ward's and Ellison's. These companies were 
raised in response to the appeal that had been made in 
August of that year. The first two companies raised 
were those of Captain John Arnold and Captain James 
Johnson, to which was subsequently added the company 
commanded by Captain Charles Ward. These companies 
constituted the battalion. 

Of this battalion James Suggett was adjutant and was 
with his distinguished nephew in the campaign for the 
relief of Fort Wayne, in August and September, 1812. 
After their return from the campaign a full regiment 
was organized, to which were added the companies of 
Captains Roper, Clark, and Bacon. 

It is said that when General Harrison, in approaching 
Fort Wayne, called for some one of undaunted courage and 
unflinching bravery to go through the lines and announce to 
the garrison of the fort that relief was at hand, Colonel 



170 The Battle of the Thames 

Johnson suggested that he had a Baptist preacher, named 
Suggett, who had all the necessary qualifications to under- 
take such a difficult and dangerous task. 

At the head of twenty mounted men he started out to 
make this effort. He met with a company of Indians, 
about twenty in number, charged them, killed their chief 
and put them to rout, and when General Harrison and 
the remainder of the army reached Fort Wayne they 
found the siege had been raised. 

Upon the organization of the regiment of mounted 
riflemen, which was completed May 20, 1813, and to secure 
which Colonel Johnson left his seat in Congress, James 
Suggett was made third major and commandant of a troop 
of spies, which consisted of a number of picked men detailed 
from the regiment to perform special hazardous service. 
Fighting with magnificent courage, he won the hearts of all 
his soldiers. 

His conduct in the battle of the Thames commanded 
highest praise, and he was one of the number who 
pursued Proctor for nearly twenty miles after the surren- 
der of the British troops. 

After his removal to Missouri, the devotion of the con- 
gregation at Great Crossings was such that by popular 
subscription a sufficient sum was raised to buy him a 
farm in Scott County, to induce his return to Kentucky, 




Major DkVALL PAVNE. 



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but as his children had settled around him in Missouri 
he declined to come. 

He was with the battalion under the command of 
Colonel James Johnson which charged the British lines. 

Major DeVall Payne. 

Major DeVall Payne was born on the ist of January, 
1764, in Fairfax County, Virginia. His father, William 
Payne, in an altercation in the courthouse at Alexandria, 
knocked General Washington down. Washington was 
then a colonel of a British regiment stationed at Alex- 
andria. Upon reflection, Washington concluded he was 
wrong and apologized to Mr. Payne. 

He came to Kentucky in 1789 and settled at Lexing- 
ton, and served under Governor Charles Scott in his cam- 
paign against the Indians on the Wabash. He was with 
Captain McChord, and commanded his company when he 
was killed and brought him off the battlefield. In a 
charge in this battle he encountered an Indian chief who 
was lying behind a log. Payne observed the Indian when 
his horse leaped the log; he dismounted and grappled with 
the Indian, desiring to take him prisoner. The Indian was 
armed, resisted most vigorously, and Payne closed in upon 
him so that he could not use his weapon, and finally con- 
quered the Indian and forced him to surrender. He 



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removed, in 1792, to Mason County, where he Hved at the 
time of his death. 

It was his battahon, under Colonel James Johnson, that 
charged through the British regulars in the battle of the 
Thames, and he was sent with the party who pursued 
Proctor for fifteen miles after the battle, and forced the 
British general to abandon his carriage and take refuge in 
a swamp, leaving his baggage in the hands of his victors. 

He was twice a member of the Kentucky Electoral 
College, and a member of the senate from Mason from 
1807 to 181 1, and in the house of representatives from 
Mason in 1801-2-5, 1817, and 1828. He was one of Ken- 
tucky's most heroic and courageous sons, and one of her 
most distinguished and patriotic citizens. 

General Robert B. McAfee. 

General Robert B. McAfee represented Mercer County 
in the senate 1821-24, 1841. 1845, and was lieutenant-gov- 
ernor from 1824 to 1828, and was a member of the house 
of representatives in 1810-1 1-12-13, 1815. 1819-20, 
1830-31-32. He ran for lieutenant-governor in 1824, 
defeating William B. Blackburn. He was elected with 
Governor Desha. He was born February, 1784, on Salt 
River in Mercer County, and graduated at Transylvania 
University. 



I 




Genhhal KOISKKI li. McAllJ 



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He volunteered as a private in a company of riflemen, 
and was among the first Kentuckians to join the Western 
army. He was subsequently made second lieutenant. 
He was quartermaster of Colonel Johnson's first regi- 
ment. 

He was commissioned by Governor Shelby to raise a 
company for Johnson's regiment, and marched with them 
on the 25th day of May, 181 3. He had the largest com- 
pany in the regiment, composed of one hundred and fifty- 
two men, and it did good service at the battle of the 
Thames. 

He presided over the senate of Kentucky during the 
heated discussion and contest which arose from the Old 
and New Court question. 

In 1833 he was appointed by Jackson Charge d'Affairs 
to Colombia, and remained there until 1837. In 1842 he 
was appointed one of the visitors to West Point and 
elected president of the board; afterward retired from 
public life and resided on his farm in Mercer County, near 
the Old Providence burying-ground. He died in 1850. 

He was the author of a valuable book entitled "His- 
tory of the Late War," published at Lexington, Kentucky, 
in 1 8 16, and left a number of historic manuscripts which 
are worthy of publication, and should long since have 
been published. 



174 The Battle of the Thames 

John Payne. 

John Payne, the son of DeVall Payne, captain of one 
of the companies, served first in the expedition of Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel John B. Campbell to the Missime and 
Wabash rivers as a private in the company of Captain 
Robert Smith. Having been honorably discharged, he 
set out at once for Fort Meigs, on the 17th of January, 
18 13, for the purpose of tendering his services to General 
Harrison, so as to aid his country in the war with its 
enemies. At Franklinton, now Columbus, Ohio, he 
learned of the disastrous defeat of the troops under 
General Winchester and the massacre of the Raisin. 

On reaching Fort Meigs he found the defeat had so 
disarranged all the plans of the commanding general that 
it was deemed unwise to prosecute the campaign further 
until reinforcements should arrive. As these reinforce- 
ments must come from Kentucky, Ohio, and the western 
part of Pennsylvania, through a country difficult at all 
times, being an almost impassable wilderness, and having 
received from General Harrison authority to organize a 
company of volunteer light dragoons, he at once retraced 
his steps and returned to his home in Mason County. 

On February 26th he issued a call, published in "The 
Dove," a weekly paper then being printed at Wash- 
ington, in Mason County, in which he says : 



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The service, I am sure, will be active. The opportunity to 
acquire military renown will be ample. The thanks of your 
country and the approbation of your own hearts will follow. 
Why should you hesitate .' I need not speak of the compensa- 
tion, for that, ample as it is, is no inducement; "the soldier's 
wealth is honor." I say the compensation is ample — eight dol- 
lars per month and twelve dollars per month for the hire of 
your horses. Arms of the best quality are at Lebanon and 
Franklinton in abundance ; with these you will be supplied. 
Although I take an active part, it being necessary for some one 
to do so in raising the troop, yet you shall have the liberty of 
choosing any commander and your own commissioned officers. I 
will act with you in any capacity. 

Any person wishing to volunteer will please direct a letter to 
me at Augusta, Bracken County; I will then describe to them 
the uniform agreed upon, which will be plain, cheap, and serv- 
iceable. I hope to march by the 15th or 20th of April. 

John Payne. 

In response to this call ninety-two volunteers met 
Captain Payne. The commander of the company expected 
to march on the 15th or 20th of April. On the 14th he 
received a letter from General Harrison, stating that he 
had no authority, under the recent regulation issued by 
the War Office, to call out or receive the services of any 
troops not specially ordered out by the Secretary of War. 
Acting upon this notice the company was temporarily 
disbanded, and on the 13th of May Captain Payne 
received a letter from Colonel Johnson, asking him to 



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attach his troop to his regiment, which was to rendezvous 
at Newport on the 2 2d of May. The offer was imme- 
diately accepted. The troop was notified ; they answered 
the call with alacrity and assembled in Washington, 
Mason County, in May, in readiness for the field, and 
met Colonel Johnson on the 2 2d of May at Newport. 

John Speed Smith. 

Colonel John Speed Smith, of Madison County, Ken- 
tucky, was a son of William and Mary Speed Smith. He 
was born July 31, 1792, was educated for the law, and 
became one of the most prominent lawyers in the State 
of Kentucky. In 1819 he was elected to the legislature 
of Kentucky, re-elected to the same body in 1827, 1830, 
1839, 1841, 1845. In 1827 he was speaker of the house, 
and in 1846 and 1850 he was a member of the senate. 
In 182 1 he was elected to Congress. Under President 
Adams he was sent on a mission to South America, and 
was made District Attorney of Kentucky by President 
Jackson. In the War of 1812 he was aide-de-camp to 
General Harrison. In 18 15 he married Miss Eliza Lewis 
Clay, a daughter of General Green Clay and a sister of 
General Cassius M. Clay. He died in 1854, leaving in 
charge of his countrymen the name of a distinguished 
lawyer, a wise statesman, and an exemplary citizen. He 



The Battle of the Thames 177 

was connected by blood and by marriage with the Clays, 
the Frys, the Speeds, and other prominent families in 
Kentucky and elsewhere, and lived a long and honored 
life as the peer of any and all. He occupied a position 
at the head of the Kentucky bar, and his opinion as a 
lawyer and his views as a statesman were deemed worthy 
of being obtained by prominent men on many important 
occasions. He lived the life of a well-bred gentleman of 
the olden times, whose hospitable home and table were 
enjoyed by admirers from near and far. 

Richard P. Butler. 

Colonel Richard P. Butler was born in Jessamine 
County, Kentucky, in 1792. He was the son of General 
Percival Butler, a Revolutionary soldier, who removed 
from Pennsylvania to Kentucky in 1784, and settled at 
the mouth of Hickman's Creek. He married a Miss 
Hawkins, who was a sister of the wife of Colonel John 
Todd, who lost his life in the disastrous battle of the 
Blue Licks. The elder Butlers were all distinguished in 
the Revolutionary War. The father and five sons were 
all at the same time fighting the battles of the colonists 
for independence, and the mother was at home doing all 
she could to raise means with which to sustain them in 
the army. It was to this family that Washington, at his 



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own table, in the presence of distinguished guests, is said 
to have offered a toast "The Butlers and their five sons." 
And it is of this family that LaFayette is reported to 
have said that when he wanted anything well done, in 
the military line, he ordered a Butler to do it. 

He studied law, but never practiced, preferring an 
agricultural life upon his farm in Carroll County, which 
was a model farm and cultivated with an intelligence in 
advance of his neighbors. His sowing and reaping were 
all of a scientific character and seldom failed of the best 
results. He was a delegate to the celebrated Democratic 
Convention which met in Baltimore in June, i860, to 
nominate a candidate for the presidency. This conven- 
vention failed to agree upon a candidate, as its predecessor 
had done in Charleston. A large number of delegates 
withdrew, and others refused to vote. Among those who 
refused to vote was Colonel Butler. The delegates left 
in the convention nominated Douglas, and those who 
withdrew nominated Breckinridge; thus two Democratic 
candidates were put in the field, and the race made easy 
for the Republican candidate, who won in the person of 
Lincoln. 

Mr. Butler lived to a ripe old age on his farm in 
Carroll County, almost a nonogenarian, and died regretted 
by all who knew him. 



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Bemjamin S. Chambers. 



Major Benjamin S. Chambers was the youngest son of 
Thomas Chambers, an eminent citizen of Virginia. He 
emigrated to Kentucky about the close of the eighteenth 
century and settled at Georgetown, where he became a 
distinguished lawyer. When the War of 181 2 broke out he 
was a member of the Kentucky Legislature from the county 
of Scott. He promptly enlisted in Johnson's regiment of 
mounted infantry and was appointed quartermaster, with 
the rank of major, May 20, 1813. He was one of the 
twenty who formed the "Forlorn Hope" in the battle of 
the Thames and one of the six who came out alive from 
the terrible charge made upon the Indians. In 1814 he 
married Miss Violetta Bradford, a daughter of Fielding 
Bradford, one of the founders of the "Kentucky Gazette," 
which was the first newspaper published in Kentucky and 
the first on this side of the Alleghanys except the "Pitts- 
burg Gazette, " which antedated it only a short time. In 
1833 he removed to Little Rock, Arkansas, and formed a 
law partnership with Chester M. Ashley, of New England 
birth. Here he purchased, in connection with Governor 
Henry M. Rector, a large body of land adjoining Little 
Rock. On this land he began to build a handsome resi- 
dence, but was attacked by fever and died before the 



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building was finished. After his death his law partner, 
Ashley, discovered a defect in the title of the land he had 
purchased, and instead of removing that defect for the 
benefit of the widow and the children of Major Chambers 
he perfected the title for himself. This act of Ashley led to 
a law-suit of long duration and much bitterness. The 
Chambers heirs, in conjunction with Governor Rector, sued 
Ashley for the land and gained the suit in the courts of 
Arkansas, but Ashley took an appeal to the United States 
Court, and finally won the suit after litigation extending 
through nearly thirty years and making the Ashleys rich 
and the Chambers poor. Major Chambers, at his death, 
left a widow and six daughters. One of these daughters, 
Mrs. Annie Chambers Ketchum, who still lives an honored 
octogenarian, became famous as a poetess, botanist, 
elocutionist, and educator. Many of her poems have been 
much admired, and one of them entitled "Benny" 
acquired, as it deserved, a national reputation. 

Tecumseh. 

The greatest and ablest man on the opposing side was 
an Indian, who was then in the full prime of life. He 
was born on the banks of the Mad River, in what is 
known now as Clark County, near Piqua, Ohio, a name 
so given it because of the wild and resistless torrents 




TECUMSEH. 



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which rushed through its banks when fed by storms. 
Born in 1768, he had come from one of the most distin- 
guished Indian famiUes of which history has ever spoken, 
or will ever speak. He was descended from the Shaw- 
nees, the most enterprising, brave, and restless of all the 
Indian tribes. Tradition had it that his grandmother 
was a white woman, the daughter of the governor of one 
of the colonies. His mother was named Methoataske, 
which means "Turtle laying eggs in the sand." His 
father, Puckeshinwau, while not a chief, by his courage 
and ability had risen to that rank, and was killed in the 
battle of Point Pleasant when Tecumseh was only six 
years of age. From his older brother, who became his 
counselor and his guide, Tecumseh had often heard the 
story of the details of that tremendous conflict, the most 
destructive and hard-fought of all the battles between 
the white and the red men in the West. He had listened 
to the story told by the great Cornstalk of that battle, 
and his brother Cheeseekau had repeated to him, again 
and again, the details of the glorious death of his father on 
that bloody field, and had inspired his youthful heart with 
hate of the white man as he detailed how his gallant sire 
had fallen a victim to the bullet of the Long Knife. 

From the time that Tecumseh was fifteen until he was 
twenty-two, more than fifteen hundred white men, women. 



1 82 The Battle of the Thames 

and children had been slain or taken captive by the 
Indians on the waters of the Ohio, and in these raids the 
Indian had not gone unpunished ; he too had suffered in 
equal proportion. 

Clark and Logan, and others, with their avenging 
horsemen and riflemen, had penetrated their country, and 
the ashes of burned villages, deserted cornfields, and the 
effects of destroyed crops had been deeply impressed 
upon his youthful mind. He had listened to the story 
of the cruel and unjustifiable death of the great Indian 
commander after the battle of Point Pleasant, and he 
well remembered, when a mere lad, how George Rogers 
Clark and his thousand Kentuckians had dropped down 
upon Tecumseh's home, and how as a mere child he fled 
away into the wilderness from these avenging white men; 
and he had not forgotten how, when sixteen years of 
age, against Logan's raid, he had for the first time come 
under fire, and how, by the side of his brave and distin- 
guished brother, Cheeseekau, he had started into the 
battle and had taken flight and escaped. With pride he 
recalled his battle with the white men along the banks 
of the Ohio, and later on the Mississippi, and every emotion 
of his soul cried out for vengeance on the white man 
when he remembered how Cheeseekau died in his assault 
upon the white man's fort. With delight he ran over in 



The Battle of t/ie Thames 1 83 

his mind the slaughter at Harmer's defeat, and the 
glorious memories, to him, of the butchery of Saint Clair 
and his men. He had not forgotten the disaster to the 
Indians at Fort Recovery, when so many of his brethren 
were slain in the assault upon the valiant defenders of 
that position. His courage had not been able to avail 
at the battle of Fallen Timbers, when the white 
man's bayonet had settled the fate of the day. There 
first he had met in battle the man who was to com- 
mand the forces which would subsequently vanquish and 
destroy him. 

After the treaty at Greenville in August, 1795, he had 
begun to organize a troop or band, of which he called 
himself chief, and in 1799, when he attended the meeting 
at Urbana, his speech was so eloquent and beautiful as to 
command even the admiration of the white men. 

A younger brother of Tecumseh, formerly known as 
The Prophet, assumed the name of Elkswatawa, which 
means "The Open Door." He said the Great Spirit had 
given him a vision which had told him to drink no more; 
that Indian women must not marry white men; that 
Indians must hold all property in common, and that the 
young must at all times support and cherish the aged. 
He inveighed against the Indian adopting the dress of 
the white man; he promised those who followed him com- 



184 The Battle of the Thames 

fort and happiness, and declared that the Great Spirit 
had given him power to destroy his enemies, to cure 
diseases, and to prevent death on the battlefield. He 
had attended the meeting at Chillicothe, and for the first 
time his eloquence had given the white man a true con- 
ception of his ability. 

A great idea had come into the mind of this red man, 
Tecumseh, and that was a perfect confederacy among the 
Indians, to be a united front to oppose the ceaseless 
encroachments of the whites upon Indian territory. To 
perfect the plans of this great idea, Tecumseh for years 
traveled ceaselessly among the forests of the West and 
South, with his eloquence convincing and persuading his 
red brethren that the only safety against the white man 
lay in confederacy; that unless the aggressions of the white 
man were stopped it was only a question of time until the 
red man should be driven from the face of the earth, and 
that pride of race as well as patriotism demanded that the 
red man should meet the white man fearlessly on the 
border and yield no more territory. 

The rashness of his brother, The Prophet, had brought 
on the battle of Tippecanoe, with its disastrous results to 
the Indians, before Tecumseh had fully matured his plans. 

Tecumseh had advocated the principle that all the 
lands in the West belonged to all the Indians, that no 



The Battle of the Thames 185 

tribe had ownership over any particular part, and that in 
any sale or disposition of the land all the Indians must 
be consulted, and that any sale made without the consent 
of all was void. 

The plans of Tecumseh were worthy of his great mind, 
and his ceaseless energy and great talents were devoted 
to these noble purposes. 

Tecumseh loved his race and hated the white man. 
He foresaw that in the end the white man would destroy 
the red man; that the two could not live side by side. 
In the forest, night and day, he nourished this dream, 
which would bring prestige and glory to his race and 
save it from annihilation. 

When his plans for a confederacy had been destroyed 
his hate for the white man of the West, who had been 
the aggressor upon the lands of his people, caused him 
with alacrity to connect himself with the British in their 
war against the United States. He became their ablest 
and most successful ally and leader. 

Amid the varying fortunes of the English at Detroit / 
and its vicinity, with his people he oftentime stood the 
brunt of battle. He was a born fighter; no fear of death 
ever troubled him. He had been with Proctor at French- 
town in defeat and at Raisin in victory; he had helped 
him besiege Fort Meigs, and stood by the English at Fort 



1 86 The Battle of the Thames 

Stephenson; he had seen, with profound distress, Proctor 
fleeing away from the Detroit River to allow the landing 
of the American army without opposition; he had 
reproached the English general for his cowardice, and 
demanded of him that he should meet his foes in battle; 
with disgust he had retreated the seventy miles which 
now intervened between the English border and the 
Moravian town. 

Under the taunts, entreaties, and threats of his Indian 
ally the British soldier at last resolved to give the Ameri- 
cans battle. 

Homesick and disappointed, he joined the English in 
their retreat with the declaration: "We are now going to 
follow the British, but I feel well assured we shall never 
return. " 

He declared that his body would remain on the field 
of battle, and unbuckling his sword he handed it to one 
of his chiefs, with the request that when his son became 
grown and able to wield a sword it should be given to him. 

He was brave, fearless, able, and at times merciful. 
That this, the greatest of all the Indians, who died for the 
people whose cause he had espoused and to whom he 
yielded such firm and unchanging allegiance, should at 
last rest in an unknown grave, and that the nation for 
whom he had done so much, risked so much, and lost so 




CoLONF.L KlCHAKll M. lOHNSON. 



The Battle of the Thames 187 

much should never have builded a monument to com- 
memorate his prowess and his faithfulness, is one of the 
saddest travesties in human history. 

Colonel Richard M. Johnson and Regiment. 

Colonel Richard M. Johnson was the third son of Colonel 
Robert Johnson, of Scott County, and Jemima Suggett, his 
wife. He was born at Floyd's Station, in Jefferson 
County, in 1780, and a few months thereafter his father 
and mother moved to Bryant's Station, in Fayette 
County. He was an infant at his mother's breast at the 
siege of Bryant's Station, and it is said that his mother 
left him in his cradle under the charge of a little sister 
while she led the women who, with a heroism unsurpassed 
in human history, on the i6th of August, 1782, sallied 
forth from Bryant's Station down to the spring, three 
hundred yards away, and filled their vessels with water 
while six hundred Indians from the underbrush and trees 
had their rifles trained upon them. Some estimate may 
be had of the heroism of his mother when we understand 
that the cooing of her babe sounded in her ears as she 
passed through the gate, and she turned to look upon her 
infant with maternal longing and tenderness. She gazed 
for a moment upon the playful movements, and listened 
to the childish prattle of her offspring, as with wondering 



1 88 The Battle of the Thames 

eyes they watched their mother and inquired why she 
would leave them. 

He was admitted to the practice of law at nineteen, 
after having had as his tutor such great lawyers as 
George Nicholas and James Bryant. In his twentieth 
year he organized a company and took part in the war 
which was then imminent between Spain and the United 
States. Before he was eligible, and while under twenty- 
one years of age, he was by acclamation elected to a seat 
in the Kentucky Legislature, and after having served two 
terms he was elected to Congress in October, 1807, being 
then just twenty-five years of age. 

His splendid talent, his courage of conviction, and his 
patriotism secured for him places on important com- 
mittees, and at its second session he was appointed 
Chairman of the Committee on Claims, at that time the 
most responsible of all the House's appointments. He 
was a member of Congress at the time of the Declara- 
tion of War by the United States against Great Britain, 
and with Joseph Desha, Samuel McKee, Stephen Ormsby, 
and Anthony New made the vote of Kentucky unanimous 
for hostilities. 

Upon the adjournment of Congress he hurried home 
and raised a battalion of mounted men, consisting of 
three companies, and pressed forward to the scene of 



The Battle of the Thames 189 

conflict at St. Mary's. On the 3d of September, 181 2, 
his force was increased by a battahon consisting of the 
companies of Roper, Bacon, and Clark. These combined 
companies were formed into a regiment, of which he was 
elected colonel. After a brief but active campaign Colo- 
nel Johnson returned home and entered Congress, and 
during the coming winter he supported the new adminis- 
tration in all war measures with vigor and ability, which 
won for him the admiration of his colleagues. 

In February he was authorized by the Secretary of 
War to raise arms and have in readiness a regiment of 
mounted volunteers, to consist of a thousand men. He 
hastened to Kentucky, and in less than sixty days secured 
from amongst the most distinguished and patriotic citizens 
of the State twelve hundred men, and organized them 
into a regiment, which not only became thoroughly dis- 
ciplined, but under his leadership one of the most gallant, 
daring, and historic of American military organizations. 

The authority to organize this regiment came on the 
1 6th of February, 181 3, from General Armstrong, Secre- 
tary of War, and was limited by letter of instruction as 
follows: 

You are hereby authorized to organize, and hold in readiness, 
a regiment of mounted volunteers; the organization as to the 
number of officers and men to be conformable to the military 



190 Tlie Baffle of fhe Thames 

authority of the United States. The Governor of Kentucky will 
be required to commission the officers, when selected, to serve four 
months after being called into active service, and six months after 
being required by the United States. The pay of the officers and 
men to commence from the active service and march of the corps 
under the direction of the War Department. After marching 
orders the contractor and commissary agents of the different dis- 
tricts through which it passes will supply the regiment with forage 
for the horses, and provisions for the men, if required to do so. 
The keepers of military stores will also furnish said corps with 
ammunition, on regular returns of the effective force of the regi- 
ment. If any difficulty arises as to rank, the commanding general 
will settle the same after the corps shall have reached its place 
of destination. 

With the authority thus obtained, immediately upon 
the adjournment of Congress Colonel Johnson lost no 
time in reaching Kentucky for the purpose of recruiting 
his regiment. 

The stories of the infamous massacre at Raisin, and 
the reverses of the troops under Allen, Lewis, and 
Winchester, who had been so barbarously slain, had 
caused not only the patriotic impulses of the people of 
Kentucky to rise to the highest pitch, but the spirit of 
revenge for such wrong to burn with fiercest glow. 

Opposition at once arose to Colonel Johnson's project 
in the State of Kentucky. It was held that the method 
and plan of raising these troops was unconstitutional and 





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The Battle of the Thames 191 

irregular, but no legal technicalities or quibbles hushed 
the patriotic and courageous answer to this call. 

On the 2 2d of March, 1813, the call was published. 
Colonel Johnson designated men in the different counties 
contiguous to his own, Scott, to raise companies ; the 
platoon and other officers to be chosen by the men who 
enlisted. 

It required a few weeks only to fill the regiment, 
which was the largest entering the service of the United 
States in the western department during the war. The 
field and staff officers selected by Colonel Johnson and 
commissioned by the State of Kentucky were James John- 
son, lieutenant-colonel ; DeVall Payne, first major; David 
Thompson, second major; James Suggett, chaplain and 
commander of spies ; Benjamin S. Chambers, quarter- 
master ; Robert Ewing, surgeon, and Benjamin Branham, 
forage master. The company commanders were as follows: 

Jacob Stucker, Scott County. 
James Davidson, Lincoln County. 
Robert A. McAfee, Mercer County. 
Jacob Elliston, Woodford County. 
Samuel R. Combs, Fayette County. 
Richard Matson, Bourbon County. 
James Coleman, Harrison County. 
John Payne, Bracken County. 
Benjamin Warfield, Fayette County. 



192 The Battle of the Thames 

Elijah Craig, Scott County. 

Allen A. Hamilton, 

William M. Rice, Henry County. 
Robert Berry, Woodford County. 

John W. Reading, 

William Church, Franklin County. 

The first five companies were to rendezvous at the 
home of Colonel Johnson, in Scott, and on the 20th of 
May take up the line of march for Newport, where the 
regiment was to be armed and equipped. 

The other five companies, viz.. Captains Coleman, 
Payne, Warfield, and Craig, were to march to Newport and 
report on the twenty-second. 

On the 20th of May a vast concourse assembled at 
Great Crossings, on Elkhorn Creek, to say farewell and 
words of encouragement to the soldiers, who represented 
in so large measure the best blood, the noblest patriotism, 
and the truest courage of the State of Kentucky. It was 
on this occasion that Colonel Johnson, speaking gratefully 
to his neighbors and friends, and to the friends of his 
men, of the confidence which had been reposed in him, 
promised that, in the coming campaign, he would not 
only lead them where dangers were thickest, but that he 
would do all that could be done to protect them from the 
hardships and dangers of the march and from any undue 
exposure in battle. 



The Battle of the Thames 193 

On the following morning they began their march for 
Newport, and when half way upon their journey they 
were met by Colonel John T. Johnson, an aide on General 
Harrison's staff, with a copy of an order from Harrison, 
dated Franklinton, Ohio (now Columbus), May i6th, 
expressing his gratitude for the patriotic conduct of the 
citizens of Ohio and Kentucky in coming to his aid in 
such large numbers ; that he was now happy to inform 
them that the pressing danger was past, and that as the 
enemy had abandoned the siege of Fort Meigs their 
services would not be required. 

Colonel James Johnson, who was in command of the 
battalion, received and conveyed this order to his troops 
with great regret. Some of the companies, acting under 
the belief that the order was final, turned backward and 
marched toward their homes, but finally it was decided to 
await the coming of Colonel R. M. Johnson, who had been 
delayed and was in the rear. When he arrived he gave it 
as his judgment that the order did not discharge his regi- 
ment, and that he would proceed to Newport, and would 
not disband his men without a special order from General 
Harrison; that as his first authority to raise the regiment 
had come directly from the President and Secretary of 
War he did not think a mere order of General Harrison, 
without authority from the War Office, would be sufficient. 



194 The Battle of the Thames 

This interpretation of the order greatly pleased the 
men. They were full of enthusiasm and joy at being 
allowed to resume their march, and they rode on in high 
spirits, following Colonel Johnson, who had preceded them. 

Immediately upon reaching Newport the members of 
the regiment were equipped as rapidly as possible. The 
first battalion was dispatched to North Bend by Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Johnson, where they arrived on the 4th of 
May. There they learned from General Harrison himself, 
who had arrived on a visit to his family at North Bend, 
that the regiment had been received into the service of the 
United States. 

General Harrison at once communicated to Colonel 
Johnson his commands, and directed him to take charge 
of Fort Wayne and the forts on the Auglaise River, 
establish a system of scouts and forts, make incursions into 
the Indian territory, where feasible cut off and pursue 
small parties harassing forts or found passing from the 
Illinois or Wabash rivers toward Maiden and Detroit, and 
other depredators; and also not to remain more than three 
days at any one place. 

With ten companies of mounted men to cover the 
territory now comprised within the bounds of Western 
Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois,, all a wilderness, with no posts 
except on the eastern line, and no depots for provisions, 



The Battle of the Thames 195 

the task laid out for Colonel Johnson and his Kentuckians 
was one that would appall the stoutest heart. 

With the assistance of his brother, James Johnson, 
who was a magnificent soldier and a superb tactician, this 
regiment acquired a reputation which gave it national 
fame. Throughout the summer and fall of 18 13 it was 
in most active service. It shirked no sacrifice, hesitated 
at no responsibility, and under the leadership of its dis- 
tinguished colonel and lieutenant-colonel rendered mag- 
nificent service to the American cause. 

At the battle of the Thames Colonel Johnson's 
bravery was preeminent, his coolness unsurpassed, and 
his courage peerless — covered with wounds, twenty-five 
bullets having been shot into him, his clothes, or his 
horse. Remaining at the front until victory was assured, 
at the end he was carried from the battle-ground fainting 
from his exertions and loss of blood, almost helpless. 
Subsequently carried down the Thames River, he rested 
for a brief while in Detroit, and from there, subjected to 
all sorts of inconvenience and pain, in a hastily con- 
structed boat, he was carried to Upper Sandusky, and 
there upon a litter between two horses, with his wounds 
still unhealed, suffered tortures that only a brave spirit 
could endure. He was brought to his home at George- 
town. In February, 18 14, unable to walk, he set out for 



196 TJie Battle of the Thames 

Washington and resumed his seat in Congress. On the 
road and at the national capital he received that enthu- 
siastic greeting which evinced the gratitude of his fellow- 
countrymen. Even his political opponents could not raise 
their voices in anything but praise of his patriotism and 
valor, but with one accord they applauded the man who, 
with such sacrifices, had given such services to his 
country. 

Congress by joint resolution placed upon record its 
acknowledgment of his valor, and presented him with a 
medal in commemoration of his services. In 18 19 he 
voluntarily retired from Congress, carrying with him the 
love and respect of the whole nation. 

Upon his return home he was elected to the legis- 
lature, which immediately sent him to the United States 
Senate, where he remained from 18 19 to 1829, which, 
with his services in the house of representatives from 
1807 to 1819, and from 1829 to 1837, gave him one of 
the longest terms in the national legislature with which 
Kentucky has ever honored any of her sons. 

In 1836 he was elected by Congress Vice-President 
of the United States, where he presided over the sen- 
ate with the greatest impartiality and fairness for four 
years, and from which he returned to his farm in Scott 
County. 



The Battle of the Thames 197 

Twice again, in 1841 and 1842, he was sent by his 
fellow-countrymen to the legislature, of which he was a 
member at the time of his death at Frankfort in 1850. 

Distinguished honors were accorded him in his burial. 
The State claimed as its own the ashes of this heroic 
statesman and patriotic citizen, and in its lot at Frankfort 
on the beautiful hill overlooking the splendid scenery 
which surrounds the Capital City, a grateful Common- 
wealth has erected a monument on which is the following 
inscription: 

RICHARD MENTOR JOHNSON. 

BORN AT 

Bryant's Station in Kentucky 

ON THE 

17TH DAY OF October, 17S1, 

DIED IN 

Frankfort, Kentucky, 

ON THE 

19TH DAY OF November, 1850. 

(On the opposite side.) 

To THE Memory of Colonel Richard M. Johnson. 

A faithful public servant for nearly half a century, as a 
member of the Kentucky Legislature, and Representative and 
Senator in Congress; Author of the sundry mail report and of 
the laws abohshing imprisonment for debt in Kentucky and in 
the United States; Distinguished by his valor as colonel of a 
Kentucky Regiment at the Thames; for four years Vice-President 
of the United States — Kentucky, his native State, to mark the 
scene of his eminent services in the cabinet and in the field, 
has erected this monument in the resting-place of her illustrious 
dead. 



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APPENDIX 



I 



OLIVER HAZARD PERRY AND THE KENTUCKIANS WHO 

HELPED TO WIN THE BATTLE OF LAKE 

ERIE, SEPTEMBER lo, 1813 

Oliver Hazard Perry, who was so largely instrumental 
in producing the conditions which immediately preceded 
the battle of the Thames, is one of the most unique 
characters in American history. He was born in South 
Kingston, Rhode Island, August 23, 1785; died in Port 
of Spain, Island of Trinidad, August 23, 18 19. 

Although only thirty-four years of age at the time of 
his death, he had won glorious immortality. His father 
before him was a naval officer. His mother was a bril- 
liant and accomplished woman, the granddaughter of an 
officer in the Scotch army and who had signed the 
Solemn League and Covenant in Scotland. 

The father, Christopher Raymond Perry, was the 
mate on the ship on which the mother sailed to America 
to visit Doctor Benjamin Rush, and this acquaintance led 
to their engagement. They were shortly afterward mar- 
ried. Oliver Hazard Perry was made a lieutenant in the 
American navy on the 15th of January, 1807. While in 
command of the schooner "Revenge," cruising off the 
south coasts of the United States, he lost his ship, but 
was acquitted of all blame by a court of inquiry. 



202 Appendix 

When the war opened with England he was probably 
the best ordnance officer in the American navy. He 
was painstaking, energetic, and brave, and had the 
capacity for mastering the details of everything he under- 
took. 

Disappointed in securing the command of a ship, he 
tendered his services to Commodore Chauncey, and he 
was sent at once to Lake Erie. Traveling in sleighs, he 
reached Erie on the 27th of March, 18 13, and at once 
began the construction of the ' ' Lawrence " and the 
" Niagara," and the other vessels then being fitted out 
for service on the lake. Surrounded by great difficul- 
ties, he pushed his work with such tremendous energy . 
that he was able to move out from Put-In-Bay on 
September 10, 1813, with nine small vessels manned by 
about five hundred landsmen and sailors, many of whom 
had never seen salt water, but by practice and constant 
drilling, within five months Perry had transformed some 
of these men into fairly good artillerists. He was to meet 
an experienced and brave commander on the English 
side — Robert Heriot Barclay. The English ships were 
better armed and better manned than the American 
vessels. After a contest at close range, and exhibiting 
great skill and courage, Perry forced the English fieet to 
run up the white flag, and after four hours of tremendous 



Appendix 203 

conflict the British flag was hauled down, and for the 
first time in her naval history Great Britian lost an 
entire squadron, and that was surrendered to a young 
man just twenty-seven years of age. The loss on the 
British side, proportionately, largely exceeded that on the 
American. The Kentucky riflemen in the masts of 
Perry's vessels shot down every man that was visible, and 
the battle being at close range, the guns on the American 
ships being adapted to that service, the deaths among 
the officers and men on the British ships were nearly 
twice as great as that of those under Perry. 

From the deck of one of his ships, the "Lawrence," 
Perry sent the celebrated dispatch to General W. H. 
Harrison, then at Portage, which included the famous 
fine, "We have met the enemy and they are ours." 

While in command of the "John Adams," another 
United States vessel in the West Indies, he was attacked 
by yellow fever, and died on the 23d of August, the 
anniversary of his birth. 

Rhode Island and Ohio both honored him with monu- 
ments, and the State of Ohio has placed in the Capitol 
at Washington a picture of the battle of Lake Erie and 
of Perry leaving the "Lawrence" for the "Niagara." 

Leaving the ships, he cheerfully went with Harrison 
and Shelby in their pursuit of Proctor, and as an aide 
rendered valuable service in the battle of the Thames. 



204 Appendix 

KENTUCKIANS ON COMMODORE PERRY'S SHIPS. 

Kentucky riflemen played a most important part in 
Commodore Perry's triumph. History has never given 
them the credit they deserve. It is certain that a large 
part of them were volunteers, whose time had expired 
before the great naval conflict. 

Six of them were living as late as 1868, and the 
names of these survivors are alone preserved. Assuming 
that they were eighteen years of age at the time of 
enlistment, they were all over seventy-three when Ken- 
tucky did them tardy justice. 

On February 11, i860, the following resolution was 
passed by the legislature of Kentucky : 

RESOLUTION No. 19. 

Resolution Authorizing the Governor to Procure and Pre- 
sent THE Surviving Officers and Soldiers of the 
Kentucky Volunteers in the Battle on 
Lake Erie with a Gold Medal. 

Resolved by the Genoa I Assembly of ike Co»niionu'ealtli of Ken- 
tucky : 

That the Governor of this Commonwealth be, and he is hereby, 
authorized and directed to procure suitable gold medals, with 
appropriate inscriptions and devices, and in the name of the State 
of Kentucky to present to each of the surviving officers and 
soldiers of the Kentucky volunteers who were present and partici- 



Appendix 205 

pated in the memorable engagement between the American and 
British naval forces on Lake Erie on the loth of September, 
1813, as a token of the grateful recollection in which the people 
of the State hold their brave and patriotic services on that day, 
and the imperishable renown which that brilliant victory achieved 
for their common country. 

Approved February ii, i860. 

Nothing was done under this resolution except that 
the medals were procured, but the auditor of the State 
refused to issue a warrant for the money required to pay 
the cost of their manufacture, on the ground that the 
journals of the house and senate did not show that the 
resolution was passed in the manner required by the 
Constitution. January 24, 1867, another resolution was 
passed, appropriating four hundred and forty dollars to 
pay the cost of these medals. 

The names then mentioned were James Artus, of 
Mason County ; Doctor William T. Taliaferro, of Cincin- 
nati, Ohio, but late of Kentucky ; John Tucker, late of 
Mason County, and John Norris, of Boone County. 

These were the four known in i860, and in 1867 the 
name of Ezra Younglove was added to this illustrious 
list, and in 1868 the name of Samuel Hatfield, of Floyd 
County, was included among those worthy of this delayed 
but noble remembrance. 



2o6 Appendix 

By an examination of the roster of the soldiers of 
1812 it is learned that both Norris and Tucker enlisted 
on March 14, 1813, in Captain John Walker's company 
of Colonel William E. Bosvvell's regiment. Their term 
of enlistment expired on September 4, 1813, six days 
before the naval battle on Lake Erie. 

The enlistment of Ezra Younglove is not of record, 
but on the ist of January, 1814, he re-enlisted in Captain 
Thomas L. Butler's company of Colonel Thomas Deye 
Owing's regiment of United States Infantry to serve until 
April 30, 18 14, showing that he was both patriotic and 
brave. 

The three others, Artus, Taliaferro, and Tucker, were 
all from Captain John Payne's company of Colonel R. M. 
Johnson's regiment and all three from Mason County, 
where that company was principally recruited. 

Artus was fourth sergeant; Taliaferro first corporal, 
and Tucker a private. 

If possibly all, certainly five sixths of the survivors of 
these riflemen in 1867 were from two companies. One of 
these companies of discharged men being from Boswell's 
regiment and three of the men from Captain Payne's 
company in Johnson's regiment, it is fair and reasonable 
to presume that a very large majority of these brave and 
heroic volunteers were from these two companies. 



Appendix 207 

The service of these mihtiamen was perilous and diffi- 
cult in the extreme. 

The British commodore had secured a number of 
Indians for a like duty on the English ships, but the 
moving of the masts and the strange and unusual char- 
acter of the work caused them to refuse to perform their 
appointed tasks, and they abandoned their allies. 

Not so with these Kentuckians. They ascended the 
masts with alacrity; they sought the service. Unaccus- 
tomed to the sea, placed high above the decks, sub- 
jected to an unusual motion for landsmen, with the 
increased danger of death by falling or drowning, and 
with largely augmented chances of destruction by cannon- 
ade and shivered timbers, these gallant soldiers perched 
themselves in the heights of the sails and plied their 
work of death amid greatest perils with calm and undis- 
mayed hearts. 

Captain Edward Porter Thompson, in his "Young 
People's History of Kentucky," assigns these heroes to 
Payne's and Stockton's companies. 

Hatfield and Norris enlisted in the United States 
Infantry regiment of Colonel Thomas Deye Owings, 
Joseph C. Betts' company, on January i, 18 14, and 
Younglove in Thomas L. Butler's company same day, 
but this was nearly four months after the battle. 



2o8 Appendix 

Under the conditions then surrounding them, few men 
who fought in the War of 1812 engaged in a more dan- 
gerous service, exhibited a higher degree of true courage, 
or manifested a nobler patriotism than these Kentucky 
riflemen who fought from Commodore Perry's masts, and 
who by their accurate aim inflicted a tremendous loss 
upon their enemies. And it is especially to be noted that 
at the time of their performing this patriotic duty more 
than one half of them had been discharged by the expira- 
tion of their time of enlistment. 

The names of these men are justly entitled to a place 
among Kentucky's noblest heroes, and they ought to be 
carved on the monument which the Commonwealth has 
erected in its capital city to perpetuate the memory of her 
most illustrious sons. 

The following are the resolutions previously alluded to 
under which these deserving heroes received their medals 
of honor: 



Appendix 209 

RESOLUTION No. 31. 

Resolution Authorizing the Governor to Procure and 

Present to Samuel Hatfield, of Floyd County, a 

Survivor of the Kentucky Volunteers in 

THE Battle of Lake Erie, a 

Gold Medal. 

Whereas, under a resolution of the Kentucky Legislature, 
approved February 17th, i860, one gold medal was awarded to 
each of the following-named persons: One to James Artus, of 
Mason County, Kentucky; one to Dr. William T. Taliaferro, of 
Cincinnati, Ohio, but late of Kentucky; one to John Tucker, late 
of Mason County, Kentucky, and one to John Norris, of Boone 
County, Iventucky; and whereas, under a resolution approved 
March gth, 1867, a similar gold medal was awarded to Ezra 
Younglove, all of whom were survivors of the Battle of Lake 
Erie; and whereas, Samuel Hatfield, of the county of Floyd, was 
present and assisted in achieving the glorious victory of the 
loth of September, 1813; therefore, be it 

Resolved by the General Assembly of the Cominoincealth of 
Kentucky: That the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized 
and directed to procure a suitable gold medal, with appropriate 
inscriptions and devices, and, in the name of the State of Ken- 
tucky, to present the same to said Samuel Hatfield as a token of 
the grateful recollection in which the people of the State hold 
his brave and patriotic services on that day, and the imperishable 
renown which that brilliant victory achieved for our country; said 
medal not to exceed in cost the other medals awarded for similar 
services; and that the auditor be directed to draw his warrant on 
the treasury for the amount of the cost of the medal hereby 
awarded. 

Approved March^g, 1868. 



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RESOLUTION No. 44. 

Resolution in Relation to the Gold Medals Awarded 
TO James Artus and Others. 

Whereas, Under a resolution of the Legislature of Kentucky, 
approved February 17, i860, the Governor has procured and has 
now ready for delivery, four gold medals: One for James Artus, of 
Mason County, Kentucky; one for Dr. William T. Taliaferro, now 
of Cincinnati, Ohio, but late of Kentucky; one for John Tucker, 
late of Mason County, Kentucky, and one for John Norris, now of 
Boone County, Kentucky, survivors of the Kentucky Volunteers 
who, at the request of Commodore Perry, with such ready alacrity 
and heroism, repaired on board his fleet and assisted in achieving 
the glorious victory of loth of September, 1813, over the British 
fleet on Lake Erie; and whereas, the Auditor of Public Accounts 
declines to issue his warrant for the cost of said medals, because 
the journals of the two Houses do not show that said resolution 
was passed in the manner prescribed by the Constitution: now, 
therefore, be it 

Resolved by the General Assembly of the Conimomvealth of 
Kentucky: That the Auditor of Public Accounts draw his warrant 
on the treasury for the sum of four hundred and forty dollars, 
the cost of said medals, in favor of the Governor, and to be paid 
out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. 

Approved January 24, 1867. 



II 

ROLL OF FIELD, STAFF, COMPANY OFFICERS AND 

PRIVATES, KENTUCKY VOLUNTEERS, 

IN THE WAR OF 1812 

Pursuant to the Call of Governor Shelby, July 31, 1813 



FIRST REGIMENT 

(TROTTER'S) 



George Trotter, Colonel. 
Richard M. Gang, Major. 
Thomas Bodley, Major. 
William Montgomery, Adjutant. 
Ambrose Dudley, Paymaster. 
Nathan O. Dedman, Quartermaster. 



Fielding Bradford, Quartermaster. 

John Young, Surgeon. 

Archimedes Smith, S. M. 

John McDowel, S. M. 

Chester Pearce, Quartermaster-Sergt. 



Todd's Company 



David Todd, Captain. 
George Y. Rass, Lieutenant. 
John M. Her.\n, Ensign. 
Chester PE'.xrce, Sergeant. 
Fielding Bradford, Sergeant. 
John R. Dunlap, Sergeant 



AzELL R. Freeman, Sergeant. 
Selburn W. Bogge, Corporal. 
John Bryant, Corporal. 
Starks W. Cockrill, Corporal. 
A. B. H.\lstead, Corporal. 



privates 



Adrain, James, 
Allen, Barnabas W., 
Armstrong, John, 
Barbee, Lewis, 
Barker, George, 
Barr, Thomas T., 
Bevens, William, 
Bowman, Benjamin, 
Bowman, John, 
Burns, Thomas S., 
Carr, Walter C, 
Cassell, Benjamin, 
Clarke, Charles, 
Clarke, William, 
Combs, Edward, 
Dudley, Ambrose, 
Dudley, Peter, 



Ferguson, Robert, 
Fitzgerald, William, 
Fulse, Christopher, 
Hart, John, 
Henry, Elijah, 
Holloway, George, 
Johnston, William, 
Langsbury, John, 
Lindsay, A. R., 
Marrs, Samuel, 
Martin, Charles, 
Mannor, Nathan W., 
McCleland, Benjamin. 
McConnell, William L., 
Moore, John T., 
Morton, Elijah, 
Naylor, John, 



Philips, Thomas, 
Robinson, Isaac, 
Sanders, Miraid, 
Shannon, Thomas S., 
Shields, John, 
Smith, Samuel C, 
Stout, Samuel, 
Tait, John, 
Taylor, William, 
Tilton, Robert, 
Todd, David, Jr., 
Todd, Robert, 
Vegus, Cyrus, 
Waring, Edward, 
Welch, John, 
Wilkerson, Joseph 



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Appendix 



Bower's Company 



GusTAVus W. Bower, Captain. 
Bartholomew Kindred, Lieutenant. 
Smith Bradshaw, Ensign. 
Joshua Hightower, First Sergeant. 
Michael R. Bower, Second Sergeant. 
Peter Withers, Third Sergeant. 



Robert D. OversTreet, Fourth Sergt. 
George Chrisman, First Corporal. 
Reuben Bennett, Second Corporal. 
William D. Wilson, Third Corporal. 
Benj.jvmin Bradshaw, Jr., Fourth Corp'l. 



AUison, John, 
Bird, John, 
Bourne, Daniel, 
Bradshaw, Benjamin, 
Bustard, David, 
Campbell, John, 
Campbell, William, 
Carroll, John, 
Cobb, Thomas, 
Conner, Rice, 
Conner, William R., 
Corr, James, 
Casby, Charles J., 
Casby, James, 
Crockett, John W., 
Crutclier, James, 
Davenport, John F., 
Davidson, Richard, 
Davis, James G., 
Demoss, Asa, 
Dickerson, Fountain, 
Dickerson, James, 
Daugherty, James, 
Duncan, James, 
East, James, 



privates 

Fitzgerald, Francis, 
Fassee, John, 
Gilman, James, 
Gray, David, 
Haggard, John, 
Hawkins, Thomas, 
Higby, James H., 
Higginbotham, Jesse, 
Hunter, Davidson, 
Johnson, John G., 
Lewis, Daniel, 
McCarty, Dennis, 
McConnell, Andrew, 
McCune, John L. P., 
McDaniel, Thomas, 
Miles, Benjamin, 
Miles, James, 
Moss, William, 
Mirrain, Wm. W., 
Pennington, Samuel, 
Power, Samuel, 
Reynolds, William, 
Rice, Thomas N., 
Richards, Alexander, 
Robertson, Michael, 

Christopher's Company 



Scott, James, 
Shaw, John, 
Shearer, Caleb, 
Shelton, William, 
Sike, David, 
Smith, Adam, 
Smith, Alexander, 
Stipe, David, 
Stipe, Henry, 
Stipe, Jacob, 
Taylor, Samuel, 
Taylor, William, 
Thompson, Alexander, 
Thornton, Elijah, 
Trister, Peter, 
Turner, Robert, 
Walker, Reuben, 
Wallace, Thomas, 
Walters, Thomas, 
W'ard, George S., 
Welch, Alexander, 
Willis, Drury, 
Wilson, William S., 
Woods, James, 
Zimmerman, John. 



John Christopher, Captain. 
Solomon Dunnegan, Lieutenant. 
Thomas W. Sellers, Ensign. 
Francis W. Cook, First Sergeant. 
John F. Cook, Second Sergeant. 
Silas Johnson, Third Sergeant. 



Willis Long, Fourth Sergeant. 
Arthur Gregory Young, Fifth Sergt. 
Merrit Young, First Corporal. 
William Woolridge, Second Corp'l. 
James L. Russell, Third Corporal. 
John Hawkins, Fourth Corporal. 



Appendix 



213 



Arnold, Fielding, 
Ashford, Levi, 
Ashford, Thomas, 
Baker, James, 
Berry, Benjamin, Jr., 
Bingley, John M., 
Bowdry, Samuel P., 
Brittinham, William, 
Brooking, Samuel, 
Brown, Joseph, 
Callimes, Marquis, 
Carroll, Perry, 
Coleman, Strother, 
Conover, William, 
Cox, James, 
Dawson, William, 
Donnald, John, 
Dunlap, Alexander, Jr., 
Dunegan, Acre, 
Easley, Obediah, 
Elgin, Thomas P., 
Elkin, McCIanihan, 
Elkin, Strother, 
Elliott, Robert, 



PRIVATES 

Felix, Isaac, 
Florence, William, 
Frasheur, John, 
Gaines, Richard, 
Garnett, Reuben, 
Garrett, John, 
Gay, William D., 
Gibbany, James, 
Gray, Isaac, 
Holeman, Cornelius, 
Kirby, John, 
Lankford, Robert, 
Lewis, Fielding, 
Long, James B., 
Long, Zachary, 
Maning, Richard, 
McGehe, Carter, 
McGuire, John, 
McQuaddy, Benj., 
Morris, James, 
Moseby, Nicholas, 
O'Brien, Daniel, 
Parker, John, 



Paul, James, 
Poore, Jesse, 
Railey, Randolph, Jr., 
Rucker, Lyvand F., 
Sellers, Joseph, 
Smith, Allen, 
Smith, Allen, 
Smith, George, 
Smith, James, 
Smith, John W., 
Son, Dick, 
Spaulding, James, 
Spillman, James, 
Stephenson, William, 
Stanford, David, 
Stone, John, 
Terrell, Vivian, 
Tilbery, Lotte, 
Walker, John, 
Walker, William, 
Watkins, Nathaniel W., 
Watkins, Samuel, 
Wharton, Sanmcl. 



Singleton's Company 



Mason Singleton, Captain. 
Benjamin, Williams, Lieutenant. 
Thomas Haydon, Ensign. 
Joel Turnh.^m, First Sergeant. 



William Scott, Second Sergeant. 
Jesse Haydon, Third Sergeant. 
Ed SallEE, Fourth Sergeant. 



Burton, Thomas, 
Corithes, Hugh, 
Ellison, Thomas, 
Evans, Andrews, 
Ficklin, Thomas, 
Frost, John, 
Gatewood, Gabriel, 
Hampton, Stephen, 
Haydon, Ezekiel, 
Haydon, John, 
HoUoway, Samuel, 



Hughes, Charles, 
Hunley, John, 
Lampkin, Daniel, 
McVey, John, 
Moore, Joel P., 
Morrow, John, 
Moseley, Edward, 
Neal, John, 
Proctor, Isaiah, 
Proctor, Thomas, 
Reed, Philip, 



Reynolds, Drake, 
Rice, Richard, 
Richardson, Jesse, 
Roper, Jesse, 
Scofield, Samuel, 
Sharewood, Wm., 
Singleton, Lewis, 
Smith, James, 
Smith, William, 
Starr, Henry, 
Steel, Jabez T., 



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Appendix 



Webster.'^Christopher, 
Wells, Jacob, 
Williams, Elijah, 
Williams, Thomas, 



Willis, Lewis, 

Wilson, Nathan, 
Wilson, Alexander, 
Woods, Christopher, 



Woods, Richard, 
Young, Lewis, 
Fizer, Jacob, 
Jenkins, Henry. 



Flournoy's Company 

Mathews Flournov, Captain. 
John Wyatt, Lieutenant. 
Thomas C. Flournov, Ensign. 
Henry C. Payne, First Sergeant. 
William Dougherty, Second Sergeant 
William C. Offutt, Third Sergeant. 



Jeremi.\h Rogers, Fourth Sergeant. 
Francis Springer, First Corporal. 
Peter Leathers, Second Corporal. 
Samuel L. P.atterson, Third Corporal. 
Andrew WiljERS, Fourth Corporal. 



Bruce, Richard W., 
Burton, William, 
Canick, Robert, 
Fisher, William, 
Flournoy, Natley M., 
Graves, Asa, 
Graves, Zachariah, 
Honip, Hiram, 
Harp, David, 
Henderson, Alex. S., 
Henry, Wilham, 
Henry, Robert P., 
Hicks, William, 
James, Harry, 
Jeflfries, Robert, 



privates 

Johnson, James, 
Mattison, Henry, 
McChord, John, 
McCoy, John, 
McDowell, John L., 
Moore, Jeriah, 
Morgan, John, 
Muldro, George F., 
Nutter, Thomas, 
Owens, John, 
Parberry, James, 
Payne, Bailor, 
Payne, Nathan, 
Rogers, Joseph, 
Ropell, Elijah, 



Runjon, Joseph, 
Ryon, Edward, 
Sanderson, William E., 
Scofield, Henry, 
Sheley, David, 
Sheley, John, 
Shuff, Jacob, 
Simpson, William, 
Stapleton, David, 
Sterrett, John, 
Stone, William H., 
Tandy, Edraond, 
Wilson, Russell, 
Woods, William, 
Cuthbert, Margrove. 



Reding's Company 



Joseph Reding, Captain. 
Charles W. Hall, Lieutenant. 
Christopher Acuff, Ensign. 
John Winer, First Sergeant. 



John Lemon, Second Sergeant. 
Israel Lewis, First Corporal. 
Jesse L. Cope, Second Corporal. 



privates 



Adams, Terrell, 
Allen, Malcolm, 
Antle, Jeremiah, 
Bows, George, 
Bows, Peter, 
Cocks, Daniel, 
Cummings, John, 



Ewing, William, 
Fields, Levin, 
Gaines, Gideon, 
Hall, Preston, 
Hall, Thomas G., 
Hiles, George, 
Iceminger, Henry, 



Lemmon, William, 
Marshall, Robert, 
Martin, Andrew, 
McBee, Turner, 
McConnack, George, 
McCure, William, 
Neal, Charles 



Appendix 



215 



Neal, Fielding, 
Neal, Jotin, 
Nicliolson, Samuel, 
Peak, John, 
Ransdale, John, 
Ransdale, Wharton, 



Sheppard, Wni. T., 
Strickler, Emanuel, 
Todd, Abell D., 
Triplett, John, 
Wright, Abner, 

Megowan's Company 



Wright, Reuben, 
McGary, Daniel, 
Shipp, Dudley, 
Lemnion, William, 
Tompkins, Slieppard. 



S. W. Megowan, Captain. 
James Megowan, Lieutenant. 
James McConnell, Ensign. 
James Nepper, First Sergeant. 
Hiram WorTham, Second Sergeant. 
William Liggins, Third Sergeant. 



Robert McConell, Fourth Sergeant. 
Enoch Fr.\ncis, First Corporal. 
Thomas Bronston, Second Corporal. 
Jacob Wicard, Third Corporal. 
John Wilson, Fourth Corporal. 



Baldwin, Jeremiah, 
Benton, Loyd, 
Buckley, Samuel, 
Campbell, Williamson, 
CHne, Hiram, 
Dennis, Mathew, 
Fisher, James, 
Francis, Jesse, 
Hillix, James, 
Howe, Abraham, 
Lindsey, Robert, 
Lindsey, William, 



privates 

Litterat, Joseph, 
Lyons, Elijah, 
Masterson, James, 
Masterson, Moses, 
McDonald, Enoch, 
Minor, Joseph, 
Mitchell, Benjamin, 
Mitchell, Robert, 
Moreland, James, 
Parker, North, 
Penn, Nimrod, 



Prather, Benj. H., 
Price, Samuel, 
Rice, Joe, 

Roberts, Billington, 
Rumsey, Thomas, 
Rumsey, William, 
Shaw, Thomas R., 
Snider, Peter, 
Stout, Ira, 
Tadlock, Andrew, 
Yates, William. 



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Appendix 



SECOND REGIMENT 
(DONALDSON'S) 



John Donaldson, Colonel. 
William Farrow, First Major. ■ 
James Mason, Second Major. 
John R. Porter, Adjutant. 
Robert TalEFaro, Surgeon. 
Wiley R. Brassfield, Paymaster. 



J.\MES Daniel, Quartermaster. 
William V. Morris, Quartermaster. 
Levi L. CarTwright, Sergeant-Major. 
Uriel B. Chambers, Sergeant-Major. 
Abram McGowan, Forage Master 
William Pepper, Quartermaster-Sergt. 



Menifee's Company 

Richard Menifee, Captain. 
Daniel P. Moseley, Lieutenant. 
Harrison Conner, Ensign. 
Peter G. Glover, First Sergeant. 
CrEad Glover, Second Sergeant. 
Joel Parker, Third Sergeant. 



Jacob Steele, Fourth Sergeant. 
Jesse Steele, First Corporal. 
William Smart, Second Corporal. 
Thomas MoslEy, Third Corporal. 
Jacob Ragan, Fourth Corporal. 



Adams, John, 
Alexander, David, 
Anderson, John A., 
Anderson, John, 
Barkley, Lazarus, 
Bourn, John, 
Bourn, Walker, 
Bracken, James, 
Bracken, Mathew, 
Cassady, Peter, 
Choat, Samuel, 
Clayton, Charles, 
Dotson, Thomas, 
Epperson, Robert, 
Fannen, Middleton, 



privates 

Gill, John, 
Glover, Chesley, 
Goodpaster, Noah, 
Griffin, Gordon, 
Hackitt, Daniel, 
Hackley, Samuel, 
Hows, Frederick, 
Hornback, Abraham, 
Jamison, Thomas, 
Kelsoe, John G., 
Kincaid, James, 
Lemons, Benjamin, 
Lemons, David, 
Leslie, Joseph, 
Lonsdale, James, 

Cunningham's Company 



Linch, William, 
McClane, James, 
Mcllhany, Thomas, 
Oakley, John, 
Patrick, William, 
Parsons, David, 
Porter, John R., 
Rogers, William, 
Roysdon, Jesse, 
Smart, Glover, 
South, Benjamin, 
Spencer, John, 
Thompson, Joseph, 
Young, Sennet. 



Isaac Cunningham, Captain. 

John Bean, Lieutenant. 

Henry Smith, Ensign. 

Edmund Pendleton, First Sergeant. 

Benjamin Luckett, Second Sergeant. 

Richard Empson, Third Sergeant. 



John Cunningham, Fourth Sergeant. 
John Smith, First Corporal. 
John Bogas, Second Corporal. 
Alfred Burns, Third Corporal. 
Jonas Goff, Fourth Corporal. 



Appendix 



217 



Anderson, Henry, 
Armstrong, Robert, 
Bean, Eli, 
Bonifield, James, 
Boyd, John, 
Brassfield, James, 
Brassfield, Wiley R., 
Brown, Mathew P., 
Bryan, Lewis, 
Buckhanon, Stephen, 
Calmes, George, 
Chambers, Uriel B., 
Chisam, James, 
Clark, James, 
Clarkson, Julius W., 
Conchman, John, 
Cooper, Robert, 
Crockett, Samuel, 
Cunningham, Riddle, 
Davis, John, 



Dawson, Nathaniel, 
Donaldson, John, 
Eades, Drury, 
Eades, Howell, 
Estes, James, 
Estes, Middleton, 
Forman, David, 
Foster, John, 
Graves, James, 
Hanks, John, 
Hulitt, Stephen, 
Jacobs, Harrison, 
Jones, Edward, 
Jones, William, 
Judy, David, 
Kenney, Joseph, 
Kiggin, Thomas, 
King, James, 
Lackey, John, 

Mathews' Company 



Monical, Christopher, 
Moore, William, 
Parks, George, 
Parks, John, 
Peebles, Jolin, 
Peticord, Nathaniel, 
Rash, Benjamin, 
Rash, Stephen, 
Rennich, James, 
Sharrad, Samuel, 
Stipp, George, 
Stipp, Jacob, 
Tanner, Archer, 
Thomas, Granville P., 
Waterman, Jonathan, 
West, Robert, 
Whitesides, Kphraim, 
Wilson, John, 
Wilson, Moses. 



George M-athews, Captain. 
John Taylor, Lieutenant. 
George Taylor, Ensign. 
William Pepper, First Sergeant. 
Peter B. Lewis, Second Sergeant. 
Isaac Evans, Third Sergeant. 



Reuben Godard, Fourth Sergeant. 
Samuel Howe, First Corporal. 
William Armstrong, Corjjoral. 
Richard T. Godard, Second Corporal. 
Eli Weaver, Third Corporal. 
Henry M. Hart, Fourth Corporal. 



Allen, Benjamin, 
Anderson, Alexander, 
Bonham, Amariah, 
Brandham, William, 
Brown, Daniel, 
Browning, Josiah, 
Burris, William, 
Camaron, Henry, 
CoUins, Amos, 
Daily, Charles, 
Daily, John, 
Daily, Samuel, 
Eaton, Wilham, 



privates 

English, Wilham, Sr., 
Enghsh, William, Jr., 
Elliott, Edward, 
Evans, Gabriel, 
Evans, John, 
Emmons, Elijah, 
Farris, James, 
Foxworthy, Samuel, 
Foxworthy, William, 
Glen, Henry, 
Gooding, Ab., 
Gooding, David, 
Gooding, Samuel, 



Gorman, John, 
Hood, William, 
Horton, Benjamin, 
Howe, Jonathan W., 
Hush, Henry, 
Jarnagan, Noah, 
Jonson, James, 
Killison, Michael, 
Kelly, Thomas, 
Lair, William, 
Lawrence, Isaac, Sr., 
Lawrence, Isaac, Jr., 
Lawrence, John, 



2t8 



Appe7idix 



Leforgy, Airs, 


Padget, John, 


Surest, Valentine, 


Leforg\-, Lewis, 


Pickerel!, William, 


Surest, William, 


Logan, William, Sr., 


Powell, Stephen, 


Taylor, Jacob, 


Logan, William, Jr., 


Reeves, Isaac, 


Vanskite, Robert, 


Leraan, Samuel, 


Rhodes, Samuel, 


Weir, Haziel, 


McCoy, James, 


Roister, John, 


White, Isaac, 


McCoy, Samuel, 


Saunders, Cyrus, 


White, IHff, 


McGowan, Abr., 


Saunders, Henry G., 


Wills, Andrew, Sr. 


McDaniel, Joseph, 


Saunders, John, 


Wills, Andrew, Jr. 


Mitchell, Philip, 


Steele, Jacob, 


Wills, Samuel, 


Moore, Benjamin, 


Steele, Solomon, 


Young, Alexander 


Morris, Samuel, 


Strode, Jeremiah, 


Yoimg, Thomas. 



Simpson's Company 



James Simpson, Captain. 

Edmund CALtowAv, First Lieutenant. 

Pleasant Bush, Ensign. 

Joseph Martin, First Sergeant. 

Elijah D.wis, Second Sergeant. 

Robert Don.\ldson, Third Sergeant. 



John Bvbee, Fourth Sergeant. 
Daniel Do.vihoe, First Corporal. 
Absalom Lowe, Second Corporal. 
Alfred Stephens, Third Corporal. 
Robert Elkins, Fourth Corporal. 



Adams, John, 
Alcorn, Robert, 
Booth, John, 
Brooks, William, 
Bruner, .Stephen, 
Brundge, Bartlett, 
Burgis, William, 
Bush, Hiram, 
Bybee, William, 
Chisara, John, 
Cox, Claiburn, 
Cimunins, Thomas, 
Daniel, James, 
Downey, Alexander, 
Eaton, George, 
EUsberry, Benjamin W. 
Evans, Mayberry, 



privates 

Flooty, Rawson, 
Goorich. William W. 
Hamilton, James, 
Hampton, Ezekiel, 
Hardin, Thompson, 
Hazelrig, Charles, 
Hulse, Paul, 
Irvine, Jack, 
Jones, John, 
Johnson, Richard, 
Lander, Henry, 
Lander, John, 
Lane, Joel, 
Loeknane, John, 
Martin, John, 
Martin, Robert B., 
Martin, Robert E., 



Martin, Samuel, 
McCarty, Ezekiel, 
McMurray, John, 
Millar, Jacob, 
Moore, William, 
Poer, William, 
Rupard, William, 
Sideballom, Joseph, 
Trimble, Peter M., 
Trimble, Samuel, 
Walker, James, 
Welch, William, 
White, William, 
Wilcoxan, Aaron, 
Williamson, Jacob, 
Wilcoxan, Jesse. 



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Crawford's Company 



James Mason, Captain. 
John Crawford, Lieutenant. 
Amos Richardson, Ensign. 
John Davis, First Sergeant. 
John D. James, Second Sergeant 
John Dickson. Third Sergeant. 



William Owings, Fourth Sergeant. 
George Peeler, First Corporal. 
Francis McKennell, Second Corporal. 
Thompson, Clark, Third Corporal. 
Joseph Ringo, Fourth Corporal. 



privates 



Anderson, Nicholas, 
Alexander, James D., 
Black, George, 
Barnett, Roman, 
Bunch, Davis, 
Carter, George W., 
Cox, James, 
Cutright, John, 
Farrow, Joseph, 
Farrow, William, 
Finley, Joseph W., 
Frakes, Barnabas, 
Frakes, Joseph, 



Guddy, Thomas, 
Green, Henry, 
Grimes, Elijah, 
Grimes, John, 
Higgins, Richard, 
Howell, David, 
Kirk, James, 
Lanter, Archibald, 
Linch, David, 
Marshall, Alexander, 
Nolan, Henry, 
Nolan, Williain, 



Richardson, John, 
Richardson, Nathan, 
Stokes, Robert, 
Stokes, WiUiam, 
Strange, Berry, 
Strange, William, 
Urton, Laban, 
Watson, Hezekiah, 
Wells, Andrew, 
White, Henry, 
Wren, John, 
Young, John. 



BoTTs' Company 



George W. Botts, Captain. 
DoRSEv K. Stockton, Lieutenant. 
Thomas PaTTOn, Ensign. 
James Dobvns, First .Sergeant. 
Bazil Calvert, Second Sergeant 
Hencely Clift, Third Sergeant. 



William Morris, Fourth Sergeant. 
William Harper, First Corporal. 
George Gilkison, Second Corporal. 
Stephan TaTman, Third Corporal. 
Thomas Rawlings, Fourth Corporal. 



Alexander, William, 
Asbury, Henry, 
Beeding, George, 
Berry, Holdsworth, 
Bridges, Dillon, 
Burges, Mordecai, 
Calvert, Mansfield, 
Calvert, William, 
Carter, James, 
Clarke, Thomas, 
Dobyns, Thomas, 
Dunbar, Alexander, 
Duncan, Walter, 
Farrow, Thomas, 
Feagin, Henry, 



Fitch, Henry, 
Foster, James, 
Foxworthy, Thomas, 
Gilkison, Benjamin, 
Glasscock, John, 
Goshn, Nathaniel, 
Gragg, Solomon, 
Hooke, James, 
Hysong, Jacob, 
Jackson, Henry, 
Jackson, William, 
Jones, Thomas, Jr., 
Jurinall, Jacob, 
Leaper, Andrew, 



Leaper, James, * 
Maddin, Jeremiah, 
Morrison, David, 
Pearce, Samuel, 
Prather, Benjamin C. 
Reed, Stephen, 
Rhodes, Jacob, 
Simms, John, 
Sweet, James, 
Tatman, Nehemiah, 
Tatman, Vincent, 
Thomas, Levi, 
Trumble, William C, 
Williams, Mordecai. 



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Appendix 



John Poage, Colonel. 
Aaron Stratton, Major. 

JerEmi.\h Martin, Major. 
John E. McDowell, Adjutant. 
Samuel L. Crawford, Quartermaster. 



THIRD REGIMENT 
(POAGE'S) 

John Hockaday, Paymaster. 



Anderson Don.\phan, Surgeon. 
Thom.\s Nelson, Surgeon's Mate. 
Edw.\rd Brooks, Quartermaster-Sergt. 
\ViLLL\M Triplett, Sergeant-Major. 



Throckmorton's Company 



Ariss Throckmorton, Lieutenant. 
John Standerford, First Sergeant. 
John West, Second Sergeant. 



Isaiah Williams, First Corporal. 
John Clarke, Second Corporal. 



Ashcraft, Nimrod, 
Brooking, Vivion, 
Busby, Mathevv, 
Colvin, John, 
Duncan, Pope, 



Cumbus, Carvil, 
Dawson, Abraham, 
Hollady, WiUiam, 
McGinniss, Neal, 
Morgan, Thomas, 



privates 

Feeback, Gilbert, 
Fight, John, 
Grosvenor, John, 
Harney, Selby, 
Keith, Wilham, 

Reed's Company 
William Reed, Ensign. 

privates 

Musgrove, Gabriel, 
Rice, Abraham, 
Reed, John, 
Weaver, John, 
Wheeler, Lawrence, 



KivUng, WilUam, 
McCormack, Valentine, 
Scott, Merril, 
Temple, Jesse, 
WiUiams, Abraham. 



Wright, John, 
Grimes, Avery B., 
Skinner, Wilham, 
Jones, Isaac, 
McDonald, John. 



Jeremiah Martin, Captain. 
Benjamin Norris, First Lieutenant. 
Stephen Bayliss, Second Lieutenant 
Arthur Mitchell, Third Lieutenant. 
Thom.\s Ad.\mson, Ensign. 
Thomas Chalfant, First Sergeant. 
■William Holton, Second Sergeant. 



Martin's Company 

Lewis Bridges, Third Sergeant. 
WiLLi.AM Duff, Fourth Sergeant. 
Joh.n Ricketts, First Corporal. 
HiR.\M W.\tson, Second Corporal. 
WiLLi.^M CoRwiNE, Third Corporal 
John Hillman, Fourth Corporal. 
Jacob B.\gby, Trumpeter. 



Adams, John, 
Anderson, James, 
Ausborne, Alexander, 
Barbee, Lewis, 



PRIVATES 

Biglow, Joseph, 
Black, WiUiam, 
Blackburn, James, 
Botts, Wilham, 



Boucher, George, 
Brannin, Joseph, 
Browning, Edmund, 
Byland, John, 



Appendix 



221 



Callan, William, 

Cain, Philip, 

Carter, Levi, 

Chandler, Walter, 

Chiles, David, 

Clark, John W., 

Colvin, James, 

Cooper, Conner, 

Cordery, John, 

Corwine, George, 

Courtney, Robert, 

Cronsby, John, 

Culberson, William, 

Curtis, David, 

Curtis, George, 
Davis, James, 
Davison, John, 
Dailey, William, 
Doniphan, Anderson, 
Dovvden, John, 
Downing, Edmund, 
Downing, Robert, 
Driskill, Peter, 
Duncan, James, 
Earles, Payton, 
Earles, Rhody, 
Elrod, William, 
Fanning, Michael, 
Frazee, Ephraim, 
Gates, William, Jr., 
Gibbons, Thomas G., 
GiiTord, Joshua, 
Ginn, Lawrence, 
Golder, Abraham, 



Horle, Baldwin, 
Heth, James, 
Hiatt, John, 
Hiatt, Lewis, 
Higgins, Richard, 
Higgins, Samuel, 
Huskins, Benjamin, 
Huskins, Jemion, 
Ivans, David, 
Ivans, Griffith, 
January, Peter T,, 
Jones, Jesse, 
Kerr, James, 
Kilgore, Anthony, 
Kilgore, Robert, 
Knight, Andrew, 
Lee, Daniel, 
Lewis, Thomas P., 
Little, James, 
Logan, Joseph, 
Masters, Samuel, 
Masterson, David, 
Masterson, John, 
McCarthy, John, 
McGruder, Dory, 
McKinsey, Malcomb, 
McKinsey, William, 
Moffert, John, 
Moore, George E., 
Morrison, David, 
Murphy, John, 
Norris, Gabriel, 
Penick, WilUam, 
Poe, John, 

Demmitt's Company 



Poe, Thomas, 
Pollock, James, 
Proctor, Uriah, 
Raines, Henry, 
Ramsey, Samuel, 
Rubart, James, 
Rubart, Jesse, 
Sentany, Joab, 
Shields, Jonathan, 
Shields, William, Jr., 
Smith, Richard, 
Sothoror, Levin, 
Sullivan, Randolph, 
Seypold, Denisey, 
Tabb, Richard, 
Taylor, Andrew, 
Tenins, John, 
Thomas, Isaac, 
Thomas, Robert, 
Thornton, Ednmnd, 
Vance, Henry, 
Wallace, John, 
Walton, William, 
Whipps, Samuel, 
WilUams, Abram, 
Witt, Orange, 
Wood, Henry, 
Hieatt, James, 
Masterson, Jeremiah, 
Masterson, James, 
Franklin, James, 
Adamson, William, 
Dayley, Thomas, 
Gaff, William. 



Moses Demmitt, Captain. 
Thomas Hord. First Lieutenant. Joseph Thorn, Ensign. 



Bean, Albert, 
Bland, Benjamin, 
Brightvvell, Thomas, 
Burris, George, 



privates 

Collins, Thomas, 
Conoway, John, 
Conoway, Withers, 
Deavens, John, 



Duncan, Joseph, 
Duncan, Walter, 
Fitzgerald, Benjamin, 
Fitzgerald, David, 



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Appendix 



Fitzgerald, Moses, 
Ginn, James, 
Grover, John, 
Gray, Wesley, 
Hesler, Jacob, 
Hornbuckle, Alfred, 
Hornbuckle, Hardin, 
Hornbuckle, Richard, 
Hornbuckle, Solomon, 
Howard, Henry, 
Jarvis, Amos, 
Kenton, Thomas, 



Morey, John, 
McCoUam, Seth, 
Murphy, William, 
O'Hara, John, 
Pierce, Zachariah, 
Purcel, Charles, 
Purcel, John, 
Reno, Zealy, 
Richards, John, 
Shiply, Reason, 
Strode, James, 



Strode, John, 
Thorn, William, 
Triplett, Hedgeman, 
Triplett, William, Sr., 
Triplett, William, Jr., 
Vincen, Elvin, 
Watts, George, 
Watson, Aaron, 
Wood, William, 
Dyer, John, 
Burrell, John. 



Francis A. Gaines, Captain. 
Thomas T. G. Warring, Lieutenant 
Thomas Page, Sr., Ensign. 
Hezekiah Magruder, Sergeant. 
William Ward, Sergeant 
James Po.\ge, Sergeant. 



Gaines' Company 

John Bartley, Sergeant. 
John Evans, Corporal. 
James Nichols, Corporal. 
David White, Corporal. 
Levi Shackles, Corporal. 



Adams, WilHam, 
Alison, John, 
Auxier, Thomas, 
Boone, Jesse B., 
Brooks, Edward, 
Coldgrove, Peleg, 
Colvin, John, 
Crawford, Saiimel L., 
Esom, Robert, 
Franklin, Lawrence, 
Fugue, John M., 
Gammon, Samuel W., 
Gholson, John, 
Griffith, Jesse, 
Henderson, George W., 



privates 

Hockaday, John, 
Holland, Hezekiah, 
Howe, Daniel, 
Horseley, James, 
Horseley, Mathew, 
Kain, John, 
Kouns, Jacob, 
Lowden, Thomas, 
MefEord, Andrew, 
Morton, Nat, 
Nichols, John, 
Parker, Solomon, 
Poage, Allen, 
Poage, John, 



Poage, Robert, 
Poage, Thomas, 
Slaughter, Samuel, 
Snedicon, James, 
Thomson, James C, 
Virgin, Rezin, 
Warring, Bazil, 
Warring, Francis, 
White, WiUiam, 
Willis, Joseph, 
Wilson, John, 
Young, Fountain, 
Bean, Stephen, 
Sinclair, James. 



Aaron Stratton, Captain. 
Richard Soward, First Lieutenant. 
George W. Davis, Second Lieutenant 
Elij.ah Houghton, First Sergeant. 
Charles Parker, Second Sergeant. 
Henry Halbert, Third Sergeant. 



Stratton's Company 

William Calvert, Fourth Sergeant. 
Charles Alkins, First Corporal. 
Ashel Brewer, Second Corporal. 
Jacob FrizlE, Third Corporal. 
Daniel Thomas, Fourth Corporal. 



Appendix 



223 



Baker, William, 
Bakley, James, 
Bennett, Hiram, 
Bilque, John, 
Brunt, John, 
Briant, Bailey, 
Briant, Daniel, 
Brook, Humphrey, 
Campbell, James, 
Campbell, William, 
Cox, Mark, 
Cox, Samuel, 
Cummins, William, 
Davis, James, 
Donovan, Aquilla, 
Donovan, Thomas, 
Donovan, William, 
Dyal, John, 
Easley, Andrew, 



PRIVATES 

Easley, Stephen, 
Elson, Cornelius, 
Fisher, Adam, 
Haynes, Joseph, 
Halbert, Stephen, 
HamHn, James, 
Hamlin, John, 
HamUn, William, 
Helvey, Peter, 
Henderson, Francis, 
Holt, William, 
Horrer, Peter, 
Kelly, Henry, 
Kenard, James, 
Lamar, James, 
Lamar, WiUiam, 
Martin, James, 
Martin, WiUiam, 
McCan, William, 



McDowell, Jolm G., 
McKay, William, 
Orms, Nicholas, 
Piper, John, 
Ravenscraft, James, 
Riley, John, 
Saxon, Daniel, 
Shepherd, John, 
Singleton, James, 
Smith, James, 
Smith, Jeremiali, 
Thomas, David, 
Thomas, Solomon, 
Vincent, Lavin, 
Wilson, Robert, 
Wilson, Ralph, 
Albert, Stephen, 
Stephenson, Edward. 



FOURTH REGIMENT 



(MONTJOY'S) 



William Mountjov, Colonel. 
Conrad OvErdewplE, Major. 
Zachariah EasTIN, Major. 
David Todd, Surgeon. 
James Metcalfe, Surgeon's Mate. 
John M. Garrard, Paymaster. 



Daniel Bourn, Adjutant. 
William Dickison, Quartermaster. 
Daniel AyrES, Quartermaster. 
John Conn, Quartermaster. 
Innis Woodward, Quartermaster. 



Armstrong's Company 

Conrad Overturf, Captain. William Oden, Third Sergeant. 

Ends Woodward, First Lieutenant. Harrod Newland, Fourth Sergeant. 

James Armstrong, Second Lieutenant. Henry Oakwood, First Corporal. 

Jesse Pigman, Ensign. Daniel Hutchison, vSecond Corporal. 

James Logan, First Sergeant. Amos Shroff, Third Corporal. 

Peter Mann, Second Sergeant. Frederick Dillman, Fourth Corporal 



PRIVATES 



Adams, WiUiam, 
Allison, Edward, 
Allison, Isaac, 



Ambrose, Mordecai, 
Biddle, John, 
Brashears, William. 



Bruce, Joseph, 
Chalfant, Amos, 
Cobler, Nimrod, 



224 



Appendix 



Derore, Christopher, 
Derore, Nicholas, 
Donton, Keely, 
Downard, John, 
Fegans, John, 
Fishback, Martin, 
Gill, Reuben, 
Gassage, Benjamin, 
Hamilton, Samuel, 
Hammon, Richard, 
Hammond, Thomas, 
Hardstock, Peter, 
Hiles, Christopher, 
Hooton, James, 
Hunt, John, Jr., 



Jackson, George, 
Jackson, James R., 
Jackson, Richard, 
Lancaster, Mallory, 
Lyons, James, Sr., 
McDowell, Joseph, 
McKinney, Jarrard, 
McMillen, John, 
Miranda, Thomas, 
Norris, Archibald, 
Norris, John, 
Parker, Marshall, 
Parker, William, 
Ramley, Samuel, 
Reeves, John, 



Sadler, John, 
Sallee, Jacob, " 
Smith, George H., 
Stites, William, 
Thomas, Jacob, 
Thompson, Robert, 
Thompson, Samuel, 
Washburn, James, 
Wells, Robert, 
Wiley, Eli, 
Wilson, Mathew, 
Wirrick, George, 
Woodward, Innis, 
Alexander, Thomas. 



Morris's Company 



John H Morris, Captain. 
CoLEM.^N Ayres, First Lieutenant. 
M.\RTi.M Ho.\GL.\ND, Ensign. 
WiLLi.\M White, First Sergeant. 



Lewis Ayres, Second Sergeant. 
John McGibbanv, Third Sergeant. 
J.VMEs Sale, Fourth Sergeant. 



Adkins, John, 
Ashby, Thomas, 
Baker, Jonathan, 
Baker, Nathan, 
Blakemore, Daniel, 
Boone, George, 
Buckhannon, Thomas, 
Butts, John, 
Coghill, Zachariah, 
Daley, John, 



privates 

Frazier, James, 
GulUon, George, 
Hensley, Samuel, 
Hogland, John, 
Hoover, Jacob, 
Lester, William, 
McDaniel, John, 
Mills, Elisha, 
Phillips, Joseph, 
Queshingberry, Jas. 



H., 



Ray, Jennings, 
Shelton, John B., 
Spillman, Wesley, 
Stafford, Henry, 
Tandy, Mark, 
Vallandingham, Richard, 
\'enshour, Isaac, 
Wilson, John, 
Wright, Jordon, 
Rice, Jordon. 



I 



Childers' Company 



William Mountjoy, Captain. 
Thomas Childers, Lieutenant. 
John Mountjoy, Ensign. 
William Little, First Sergeant. 
Joseph Bra.nd, Second Sergeant. 
J.\mes Henry, Third Sergeant. 



GoLDSBY Childers, Fourth Sergeant. 
William Ellis, First Corporal. 
Robert A. Taylor, Second Corporal 
He.nrv Ellis, Third Corporal. 
Steven Ellis, Fourth Corporal. 



Appendix 



225 



Abbott, Fielding, 
Arnold, James, 
Asby, Coleman, 
Ashbrook, Levy, 
Ashcraft, Amos, 
Ashcraft, Ichabod, 
Ashcraft, James, 
Beard, Hugh, 
Belew, Richard, 
Boner, Charles, 
Brand, Thomas, 
Bums, Samuel, 
Buskirk, Lawrence, 
Calvert, Charles B., 
Campbell, Matthew, 
Childers, James, 
Childers, Joseph, 
Clark, Jeremiah, 
Colvin, B. Charles, 



PRIVATES 

Colvin, Burket, 
Colvin, Henry, 
Crook, Robert, 
Duncan, Fielding, 
Ellis, John, 
Ellis, Laban, 
Ford, Thomas, 
Forsythe, William, 
Grigg, William, 
Hart, Thomas, 
Hitch, John, 
Johns, Jacob, 
Jones, Wilham, 
Kennedy, Jesse, 
Kennedy, John, 
Lawles, Lewis W. , 
Lockwood, Isaac H., 
Luckett, William, 
Mann, Richard, 



McClanahan, John, 
Minor, James, 
Monroe, John, 
Moore, James, 
Moore, William, 
Morris, James, 
Morris, Richard, 
Nichols, Simon, 
Norton, David, 
Norton, Henry, 
Norton, William, 
Porter, Edward W. 
Rush, Gabriel, 
Rush, Garland, 
Shoemaker, Laky, 
Southard, John, 
Thompson, John, 
Williams, Elijah. 



HuLHisoN, JR.'s, Company 



William Huchison, Jr , Captain. 
John Current, Lieutenant. 
WiLLiA.M Thornton, Ensign. 
CoLUMBfS Eastin, First Sergeant. 
Joseph Kendrick, Second Sergeant. 
Achilles Chinn, Third Sergeant. 



N.\THANiEL Fisher, Fourth Sergeant. 
Joseph G. Chinn, First Corporal. 
J.AMES MoRi.N, Second Corporal. 
Lewis Kendrick, Third Corporal. 
Joseph Ellis, Fourth Corporal. 



Armstrong, William, 
Ayres, Daniel, 
Belt, Asa, 
Brown, Samuel D., 
Buckhannon, Andrew, 
Cave, Richard, 
Chowning, Wilham, 
Claypole, Jacob, 
Conn, John, 
Conn, Thomas, 
Conn, William, 
Corbin, James, 
Cotton, John E., 
Dinwiddle, John, 



privates 

Eastin, Zachariah, 
Ellis, John, 
Ellis, Wilham, 
Field, John, 
Floumoy, Notley, 
Fry, Jacob, 

Garrard, Alexander B., 
Garrard, John M., 
Garrard, Stephen, 
Graham, John, 
Henderson, Samuel, 
Hildreth, John, 
Hill, Abraham, 
Hill, Ezekiel, 



Huchison, William, 
Jones, Marshall, 
Kiplinger, Philip, 
Kirtley, James, 
Kizer, John, 
London, Thomas, 
McClintock, Joseph, 
McGuffy, Joseph, 
Neal, Charles, 
Nesbit, Joseph, 
Xichals, Erasmus, 
Odor, Joseph, 
Ogle, David, 
Palmer, Thomas, 



226 



Appendix 



Parrish, Ezekiel, 
Patton, William, 
Peyton, Valentine, 
Rannels, William, 
Robinson, Andrew, 
Searight, George, 
Searight, Isaac, 
Smith, Joseph, 
Smith, Nicholas, 



Smith, Peter, 
Smock, Jeremiah, 
Summer, Daniel, 
Talljott, Daniel, 
Todd, Davis, 
TomUnson, Isaac, 
Tucker, Edward, 
Tucker, John, 

Grant's Company 



Tucker, Thomas L., 
Vallandingham, Merit, 
Ware, George, 
Wheeler, William, 
Wigginton, Peter, 
Williams, George, 
Williams, Stephen, 
Yates, Middleton. 



Squire Grant, Captain. 
William Dickerson, Lieutenant. 
LowDEN, Carl, Ensign. 
Henry E. Spillman, First Sergeant. 
Elijah Herndon, Second Sergeant. 



Charles Daniels, Third Sergeant. 
William PosEv, First Corporal. 
Thomas Organ, Second Corporal. 
Thomas P. Leathers, Third Corporal. 



Anderson, Cornelius W. 
Arnold, Benjamin J., 
Baker, Thomas, 
Bowles, Swansey, 
Brent, Ellison, 
Coleman, Thomas B., 
Daniel, Garret, 
Daniel, Travers, 
Foster, John, 
Gosney, Peter, 
Gosney, Robert, 



PRIVATES 

Grant, Israel Boone, 
Harwood, George, 
Helms, Joseph, 
Kennedy, Thomas, 
Kenney, James, 
Kyle, Thomas, 
Leathers, John, 
Mann, Elijah, 
Marshal, John, 
Palmer, Thomas, 
Palmer, William, 



Peck, Peter, 
Rice, WiUiam, 
Rusk, John, 
Rust, James, 
Sapp, John, 
Thomas, Thomas, 
Vickers, James, 
White, John, 
White, Joseph, 
Winston, Joseph. 



Thomas Ravenscrapt, Captain. 
Samuel Hinkson, First Lieutenant. 
David Wilson, Second Lieutenant. 
Samuel Snodgrass, Ensign. 
John English, Sergeant. 
Mich-aEL WoolErv, Second Sergeant 
Hugh Brown, Third Sergeant. 



Ravenscraft's Company 

William Wilson, Fourth Sergeant. 
Zachariah, Randle, Corporal. 
John Humble, Second Corporal. 
Thomas Ravenscrapt, Third Corporal. 
Richard Hall, Fourth Corporal. 
John Conn, Sergeant-Major. 



Adams, Isaac, 
Adams, John, 
Barnes, John, 
Bean, James, 
Bean, John, 



privates 

Berry, John, 
Boyd, Andrew, 
Burns, Garret, 
Burns, John, 
Bums, Thomas, 



Casey, Archibald, 
Conner, Samuel, 
Conover, Joseph, 
Creechlow, John A., 
Curry, James^ 



Appendix 



227 



Curry, William, 
Custard, George, 
Debuler, James C, 
Dial, Alexander, 
Dobenspecke, John, 
Drummond, John, 
Eaton, Morgan, 
Fishback, George, 
Hall, Samuel, 
Hambleton, Benjamin, 



Hinkson, John, 
HoUaday, Moses, 
Jaquess, Garretson, 
Lair, William, 
Moffitt, Mathew, 
Martin, William, Sr., 
Martin, WilHam, Jr., 
Mitchell, George, 
Nesbit, John, 
Rankin, Samuel, 



Ravenscraft, William, 
Ross, David, 
Sharp, Isaac, 
Sharp, Stephen, 
Smith, Jonathan, 
Smith, John, 
Spencer, Barnet, 
Sturgeon, Jeremiah, 
Wilson, James, 
Garrison, Gagues. 



FIFTH REGIMENT 



(RENICK'S) 



Henry Rexick, Colonel. 
Joseph Hornback, First Major. 
Robert B.\rret, Second Major. 
William Gr.^y, Surgeon. 
Joseph McGriffi.v, Surgeon's Mate. 



Joseph M Hoys, Adjutant. 
M.\RTIN H. WiCKLiFFE, Paymaster. 
Sherrard Atkerson, Quartermaster. 
S.AMUEL T.\LBurr, Sergeant-Major. 
Thomas Bell, Quartermaster-Sergeant. 



Robertson's Company 



Samuel Robertson, Captain. 
Thomas Head, Lieutenant. 
John Hung.ate, Ensign. 
William Mey-ERS, Sergeant. 
Henry South, Sergeant. 
Jacob C.arnays, Sergeant. 



Alrey, Basil, 
Askins, Josiah, 
Baker, William, 
Barber, WiUiam, 
Baxter, WiUiam, 
Bracken, Edward, 
Bracken, James, 
Brown, Henry, 
Brown, Peter, 
Brownlow, Isaac, 
Burns, Jacob. 
Calvert, Isaiah, 
Calvert, William, 
Compton, James, 



Gideon B.\irsley, Sergeant. 
Charles Br.\chen, Corporal. 
John Ingr.\m. Corporal. 
Richard Jenkins, Corporal. 
Allen Hill, Corporal. 



privates 



Davis, James, 
Docherty, Archibald, 
Drain, Walter, 
Dunn, McKee, 
Edelin, Charles F., 
Ferguson, Henry, 
Fluse, Nicholas, 
Graham, Isaac, 
Graham, John, 
Graham, John W., 
Grant, Adam, 
Hazlewood, James, 
Hoys, Wilhara, 
Hickson, Thomas, 



Isaacs, John, 
Lewis, WiUiam, 
McAllister, James, 
Moore, Jesse, 
Moore, John \V., 
Morgan, Vincent, 
Ray, Jennings, 
Riney, John, 
Rallens, Basil, 
Ruby, Charles, 
Seamster, Pleasant, 
Sharp, Aaron, 
Silvers, Bletcher, 
Simpson, Asa, 



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Appendix 



Sindusky, John, 
Smith, John W., 
Springer, Thomas B., 
Stalcup, Henry, 
Thickston, Abraham, 
Walker, Philhps, 



Walker, Richard L., 
Ward, James, 
Watts, John, 
Watts, William R., 
Weathers, James, 

Hornbeck's Company 



Williams, Daniel, 
Wilson, John H., 
Wright, Mathias, 
Young, Evan, 
Moody, John. 



John Hornbeck, Captain. 
Daniel Brown, Lieutenant. 
Robert Lewis Prvor, Ensign. 
Joshua Norrell, Orderly Sergeant. 



John Miller, Second Sergeant. 
James Risley, Third Sergeant. 
Richard Ferguson, Fourth Sergeant. 



Allen, David, 
Brooks, David, 
Brown, WiUiam, 
Budd, Gilbert, 
Budd, Joseph, 
Burks, John, 
Carroll, John, 
Cochran, Nathaniel, 
Conn, Hugh, 
Cooper, Jesse, 
Dawson, John, 
FrankUn, Benjamin, 
Gaither, James, 
Gentry, James, 
Gentry, Samuel, 
Hoglin, Moses, 
Hamilton, Edward H. 



PRIVATES 

Hill, William, 
Hopewell, Thomas, 
Hubbard, Albert C, 
Kiper, Jacob, 
Langsdon, Charles, 
Lee, William, 
Logan, Hugh, 
Luckey, Elisha, 
McCarthy, Barria, 
Merryman, Charles, 
Montgomery, Hugh, 
Pratt, Richard, 
Quick, Ephraim, 
Rainbarger, John, 
Riley, James, 
Rowland, David, 



Saunders, WilUam, 
Shanklin, William, 
Shankhn, William, Jr. 
Simmons, Robert W., 
Smith, Asa, 
Smith, James T., 
Smith, Robert, 
Thompson, John, 
Tucker, John, 
Vanmeter, Henry, 
Vanmeter, John, 
Welsh, Moses, 
Westfall, Daniel, 
Wiley, Charles, 
Worth, James, 
Younger, Ebenezer. 



Thomas W. Atkinson, Captain. 
Joseph M. Hays, Lieutenant. 
Elij.^h Stapp, Jr., Ensign. 
John H. Sneed, First Sergeant. 
George C. Elliott, Second Sergeant 
Gabriel Jones, Third Sergeant. 



Atkinson's Company 

Aaron Trabue, Fourth Sergeant. 
Benjamin S.mites, First Corporal. 
James Edmund, Second Corporal. 
J.\MES Orms, Third Corporal. 
LiNGYtnn Selbv, Fourth Corporal. 



Armstrong, Solomon, 
Ashworth, John, 
Atkinson, Sherwood, 
Bennett, Wilham, 
Bishop, Joseph, 



privates 

Bradshaw, Isaac, 
Bryant, Alexander, 
Bryant, John, 
Caldwell, WilUam, 
Clark, Jesse, 



Coats, Charles, 
Coats, James, 
Creel, John, 
Dahoney, Chapman, 
Doke, David, 



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229 



Hancock, Hiram, 
Harrison, John, 
Harrison, Michael, 
Hayes, Wilham, 
Holhday, Zachariah, 
Johnston, Robert M., 
Jones, James, 
Kemp, Marshal, 



Lawson, William, 
McKinley, Michael, 
Moss, William P., 
Perkins, Richard, 
Price, Gideon H., 
Price, William R., 
Ray, Benjamin B., 
Robertson, Isaac, 



Rollen, Henry, 
Selby, Nicholas, 
Self, Daniel, 
Trabue, Hoskins, 
White, Jesse, 
White, John, 
Young, George. 



Moss's Company 



Thomas S. T. Moss, Captain. 
Joshua Brents, Lieutenant. 
Jesse Paris, Ensign. 
James T. Carter, First Sergeant. 
Samuel Phillips, Second Sergeant. 
Benjamin Spillmon, Third Sergeant. 



Thomas Dills, Fourth Sergeant. 
Joel W. Harlen, First Corporal. 
Benj.amin Moss. Second Corporal. 
Joshua Lee, Third Corporal. 
John Marress, Fourth Corporal. 



Anderson, Stephen, 
Angel, Thomas, 
Atkinson, Henry, 
Bale, Jacob, 
Bell, Thomas, 
Bennett, James, 
Brown, Nathaniel, 
Buckner, Henry W., 
Burner, John, 
Byas, Armstrong, 
Carson, Alexander, 
Carter, Isaac, 
Carter, Joseph, 
Close, John, 
Dobson, Robert, 
Dobson, William, 
Gibson, Elias, 
Gibson, James, 
Gibson, John, 
Graham, George, 
Gray, Stout, 



Greenstreet, Peter, 
Harv'el, Merrit, 
Hawks, George, 
Horsey, John, 
Houchens, James, 
Jaggers, Simeon, 
Jarvis, Lazarus, 
Jenkins, AHson, 
Kellum, William, 
Lancaster, William, 
Lee, Zachariah, 
Legg, Samuel, 
Logster, Thomas, 
McDaniel, John, 
McChandless, William, 
Murphy, Benjamin, 
Oiler, Leonard, 
Parker, Edmund, 
Patton, Alexander, 
Pickerel, Samuel, 



Rountree, Turner, 
Rowlett, John, 
Rowlett, William, 
Rue, William, 
Rupe, John, 
Sherrell, Benjamin, 
Shoemaker, Tandy, 
Skaggs, James, 
Skaggs, Jeremiah, 
Smith, Samuel, 
Sneed, James, 
Tadlock, Thomas, 
Taylor, Joseph, 
Tribble, Absalom, 
Tucker, Enoch, 
Vanmeter, Henry, 
Whitman, Daniel, 
Wilson, John, 
Wright, George, 
Wright, Vinston. 



McGary's Company 



William R. McGary, Captain. 
IsR-AEL D.wis, Lieutenant. 
Henry Ashby, Ensign. 
Hugh Kirkwood, First Sergeant. 
Robert Sisk, Second Sergeant. 



Benjamin Stokes, Third Sergeant. 
S.-uiuel Berry, First Corporal. 
Jacob Tucker, Second Corporal. 
George Hooker, Third Corporal. 



230 



Appetidix 



Bell, John M., 
Blain, William G., 
Bourland, Gabriel, 
Bourland, Samuel, 
Bryant, Roderick, 
Earl, Thomas P., 
Fulcher, Jefferson, 
Griffith, Martin B., 



PRIVATES 

Hewlett, Lemuel, 
Kilbourn, Benjamin, 
Logan, Thomas, 
Majors, James, 
McGruder, Granderson, 
McKinty, Michael, 
Morrison, Samuel, 

Wickliffe's Company 



Murphy, Stephen, 
Nesbit, Samuel B., 
Parker, Wiley, 
Ross, Thomas, 
Sisk, Asa, 
Sisk, Meredith, 
Timmons, Elijah. 



Martin H. Wickliffe, Captain. 
Mason Carter, First Lieutenant. 
John W. Ogden, Second Lieutenant. 
Samuel Stephens, Ensign. 
James E. Goodlet, First Sergeant. 
George Cox, Second Sergeant. 



William R. Anderson, Third Sergeant. 
Alfred Murray, Fourth Sergeant. 
John Cummins, First Corporal. 
William Temple, Second Corporal. 
Solomon Reasoner, Third Corporal. 
Thomas Johnston, Fourth Corporal. 



Allen, Nathaniel, 
Briggs, Benjamin, 
Brown, Frederick, 
Brovyn, Nathaniel, 
Bryan, William, 
Cambron, John, 
Chenowith, Hardin T. 
Cleaver, William, 
Cook, John, 
Cotton, William, 
Cravens, James, 
Cravens, Reason, 
Curts, Jacob, 
Dalryniple, Joseph, 
Day, Joseph, 
Davis, William, 
Davis, William M., 
Evans, William, 
Frye, Elias, 
Glasscock, William, 
Greathovise, William, 
Harris, Isaac, 



privates 

Hahn, Christian, 
Hays, George, 
Henry, John, 
Jacks, Joseph, 
Johnston, Clement, 
Jones, William L., 
Kincheloe, Jesse, 
Kincheloe, Stephen, 
Langley, Charles, 
Langley, Nathaniel, 
Linton, Henry, 
Lindsey, James, 
Long, John, 
Lorimer, Joseph, 
Maxwell, William, 
McBride, Samuel, 
McCown, William, - 
McDaniel, James, 
McDaniel, John, 
Murphy, Benjamin, 
Murphy, James, 
O'Neal, Thomas, 



Osburn, Samuel, 
Pour, Richard, 
Price, Francis, 
Price, Dory, 
Ray, Benjamin, 
Read, William, 
Redman, John, 
Roach, Louis, 
Roberts, Thomas C, 
Smith, Guy W., 
Smith, James, 
Tabler, Jacob, 
Talbott, Daniel, 
Talbott, Hendly, 
Talbott, WiUiam, 
Tennell, Benjamin, 
\'entress, Pleasant, 
Wheatley, Abraham, 
White, Benson, 
WicklifTe, Charles A., 
Williams, John. 



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SIXTH REGIMENT 

(DAVENPORT'S) 



Richard Davenport, Lieut. -Colonel. 
John Faulkner, First Major. 
Benjamin H. Perkins, Second Major. 
Robert McConnell, Surgeon. 
Joseph Berry, Surgeon's Mate. 



Samuel I. McDowell, Lieut, and Adjt. 
John Glover, Lieut, and Quartermaster 
Michael G. Zo.n'CE, Lieut, and Paymaster. 
Robert Telford, Sergeant -Major. 
Robert Rochester, Quarterniaster-Sergt. 



Coffee's Company 



Jesse Coffee, Captain. 
Thomas Kennedy, Lieutenant. 
Robert T. Lewis, Ensign. 
Thomas Blain, First Sergeant. 



Abrah.\m Smith, Second Sergeant. 
Newton C. Jones, Third Sergeant. 
Timothy Good, Fourth Sergeant. 



privates 



Bailey, Ralph, 
Baker, Jacob, 
Baker, Joseph, 
Blane, Samuel, 
Blunt, Miles, 
Burk, Rowland, 
Clifton, Nehemiah, 
Coal, Harbin, 
Coffee, Richard, 
Edons, Charles, 
Elder, Jesse, 
Graham, James, 
Graham, Thomas, 



Hill, Alexander, 
Hodges, James, 
Holmes, James, 
Hutcherson, John, 
Hutcherson, Lewis, 
Kennedy, William, 
Kenney, William, 
Lanham, Pleasant, 
Mayfield, James, 
McWhirter, Jesse, 
Miller, William, 
Mitchell, Robert, 

Faulkner's Company 



Mitcheltree, George, 
Moore, George, 
Parks, Moses, 
Parks, Willis, 
Phillips, James, 
Pledger, John, 
Rife, Christopher, 
Russell, Absalom, 
Silvers, Hugh, 
Sudduth, James, 
Taylor, John, 
Willis, Jacob. 



John Faulkner, Captain. 
Stephen Richardson, Lieutenant. 
Isaac Rentfrow, Ensign. 
S.\MUEL Smith, First Sergeant. 
William Drinkard, Second Sergeant. 
Alexander B. McQuea, Third Sergeant. 



William L. Poor, Fourth Sergeant. 
David Perkins. First Corporal. 
William A. Trulove, Second Corporal. 
John Nicholson, Third Corporal. 
Benj.\min Smith, Fourth Corporal. 



Anderson, James, 
Ashley, James, 
Baker, Henry, 
Baker, Martin, 
Ball, James, 



privates 

Ball, John, 
Blalock, Jeremiah, 
Bledsoe, William M., 
Boyle, Alexander, 
Carpenter, Rufus, 



Clarke, Thomas, 
Coniley, James, 
Curtis, Reuben, 
Denny, James, 
Drinkard, Francis, 



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Appendix 



Falkner, William, 
Frame, John, 
Gill, Samuel, 
Graves, John, 
Hall, John, 
Harris, Jeremiah, 
Hedrick, John, 
Hews, Henry, 
Hews, William, 
Hogan, James, 
Hogan, Philip, 
Hogan, Samuel, 
Holmes, Edward, 
Holmes, Isaac, 
Hubbard, Moses, 
Jackraan, Samuel, 
Kennedy, Samuel, 
Kincaid, John, 



Lankford, Thomas, 
Letcher, John, 
Letcher, Roland, 
Letcher, Stephen G., 
Lettral, Edward, 
Mayfield, Southerland, 
McConnel, Robert, 
McGowin, James, 
Mershon, James, 
Moore, Moses, 
Nelson, William, 
Nicholson, William, 
Oatman, George, 
Owsley, Elsworth, 
Picklehimer, Isaac, 
Pol, William, 
Pollard, John, 
Posey, Price, 



Preston, John, 
Quinn, Ennis, 
Reed, Andrew, 
Robinson, Jacob, 
Ross, Hugh, 
Russell, John W., 
Scuyler, John, 
Shackleford, James, 
Simpson, John, 
Smith, Christopher, 
Smith, Robert, 
Smith, Zachariah, 
Sutton, Humphrey, 
Ward, William, 
Wieldon, James, 
Williams, Henry, 
Williams, Osias, 
Wooley, John. 



Davidson's Company 



Michael Davidson, Captain. 
John Bright, Lieutenant. 
Samuel Engleman, Ensign. 
Thomas Owslev, First Sergeant. 
Gabriel Hughes, Second Sergeant. 
LoTT, HacklEv, Third Sergeant. 



Samuel Davidson, Fourth Sergeant. 
Joseph Killison, Fifth Sergeant. 
Henry OwslEv, First Corporal. 
William Craig, Second Corporal. 
Amos Ellison, Third Corporal. 
James Cook, Fourth Corporal. 



Alford, Harrison, 
Bailey, Carroll, 
Bast, Peter, 
Bentley, Ephraim, 
Berry, Enoch, 
Bingerman, Henry, 
Bixler, Samuel, 
Bolton, John, 
Clark, David, 
Collins, William, 
Colyer, James, 
Comer, William, 
Craig, James, 
Crum, William, 
Edwards, James, 
Feland, William, 
Fleese, William, 



privates 

Flowers, James, 
Haines, James, 
Harland, Jeremiah, 
Hicks, Reuben, 
Hughes, William, 
Jett, Stephen, 
Lamb, James, 
Lion, Charles P., 
Logan, Benjamin, 
Logan, James, 
Masterson, William, 
McKutchen, Samuel, 
Mobley, Simeon, 
Moore, Alexander, 
Morehead, Aaron, 
Overlease, Jacob, 
Owsley, Zachariah, 



Parks, Sanmel, 
Pence, John, 
Piner, John, 
RulTner, Emanuel, 
Runalds, Joseph, 
Larton, Joel, 
Smith, Elias, 
Stines, Jacob, 
Sutton, Rowland, 
Sutton, William, 
Terrell, Robert, 
Terrell, Thomas, 
Warner, John, 
Whitesides, David, 
Whitesides, James, 
Woodall, Cosby, 
Yeager, John. 



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Miller's Company 



Abram Miller, Captain. 
Alexander Givens, First Lieutenant 
Joseph H. Wooleolk, Ensign. 
Gabriel LackEV, First Sergeant. 
Alexander G.\y, vSecond Sergeant. 
George Carter, Third Sergeant. 

PRIVATES 



John TinslEv, I'ourth vSergeant. 
Allen Logan, First Corporal. 
Thomas Briggs, Second Corporal. 
Samuel Murrell, Third Corporal. 
John K. Johnson, Fourth Corporal. 



Bailey, Ral[)h, 
Barnet, William, 
Bcntley, James, 
Blakey, Reuben, 
Carpenter, George, 
Carter, Britton, 
Carter, Larkin, 
Cumberland, Jiles, 
Cooper, James, 
Craig, John, 
Dawson, Elijah, 
Dodds, James, 
Downey, James, 
Elder, James, 
Ely, Winson, 
Fielding, John, 
Fisher, Matthew, 
Gilbert, John C, 



Givens, Alexander, 
Givens, William, 
Helm, Charles, 
Helm, Willis, 
Huston, James, 
Huston, Thales, 
Johnson, William B., 
Jones, David, 
King, Thomas, 
McAllister, John, 
McBride, David, 
McCorraack, John S., 
McCormack. William, 
Miller, George S., 
Murril, George, 
Patton, James, 
Patton, William, 

Bilbo's Company 



Pembcrton, William, 
Reed, John, 
Reynolds, Benjamin, 
Sampson, William, 
Shacklcford, Bcnnet C, 
Shelby, Evan, 
Skidmore, James, 
Slaughter, Matthew, 
Spears, Jacob, 
Sutherland, William, 
Upthegrove, Joseph, 
Vance, John, 
Warren, Samuel, 
Warren, William, 
Wilhight, Joel, 
Wright, Joel, 
Wright, Jonathan. 



Richard Davenport, Captain. 
Archibald Bilbo, First Lieutenant. 
Silas Harlan, Second Lieutenant. 
Thomas P. Moore, Third Lieutenant. 
Elijah H.\rlen, Ensign. 
Samuel McDowell, First Sergeant. 
Michael G. YousE, Second Sergeant. 
Thomas Chiles, Third Sergeant. 



Thompson, Gaines. Fourth Sergeant. 
John Glover, Fifth Sergeant. 
John Green, First Corporal. 
Robert MosEbv, Second Corporal 
William Minor, Third Coriioral. 
John Harlan, Fourth Cor]Kiral. 
Robert Tilford, Fifth Corporal. 
George D. RosEny, Sixth Corporal 



Baber, Joseph, 
Banton, David W., 
Board, Wilham, 
Boddy, Thomas, 
Boiling, Dred, 
Brown, Nathaniel, 



privates 

Chiles, John, 
Clark, William, 
Cole, Harlan, 
Colter, Thomas, 
Corley, Thomas, 
Covert, Garret, 



Covert, Simon, 
Cozine, Cornelius, 
Crain, Cary A., 
Crawford, John, 
Crutchficld, Benj. F., 
Daugherty, Samuel, 



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Appendix 



Davis, Edward, 
Davis, John, 
Debon, Abraham, 
DePaw, Charles, 
Downing, Samuel, 
Duncan, Howsen, 
Duncan, William, 
Farrow, Daniel, 
Gaines, Thompson, 
Gordon, Robert T., 
Grimsley, William W., 
Harbert, William, 
Hardenbrook, Cornelius, 
Harlan, Eli, 
Harman, Jacob, 
Howell, Squire D., 
Hughes, John, 
Humble, Noah M., 
Irvine, David, 
Irvine, William D., 
Jeffries, Taliafarro, 
Johnson, Garret, 



Johnson, Samuel M., 
Jones, Robert, 
Keele, Solomon, 
Kile, John, 
King, John, 
Klinesmith, Edward, 
Knox, William, 
Lester, Elias, 
Lewis, Robert W., 
Manners, James, 
Martin, Charles W., 
McGraw, William, 
Miller, William, 
Mitchell, James P., 
Moore, Charles, 
Patterson, George, 
Pritchett, Abraham, 
Richardson, David, 
Richardson, Landie, 
Robards, Thomas, 
Rochester, Robert, 



Ryan, David, 
Shye, John, 
vShye, William, 
Smith, Harvey A., 
Smith, James, 
Smock, John B., 
Smock, Simon, 
Tadlock, John H., 
Taylor, Samuel, 
■ Taylor, John, 
Thomas, Joseph, 
Thomas, William, 
Toomy, John, 
Vandivere, James, 
\'andivere, John, 
VanNice, John, 
Weaver, Davis, 
Wilkinson, Merideth G. 
Williams, Meshach, 
Wilson, David, 
Yerser, George. 



SEVENTH REGIMENT 



(TAUL'S) 



Michael Taul, Colonel. 
Samuel Wilson, First Major. 
Thomas Laughlin, Second Major. 
Henry E. Green, Surgeon. 
Henry E. Innes, Surgeon's Mate. 



WiLLSON Bowman, Adjutant. 
William Scott, Quartermaster. 
JoN.\THAN Smith, Paymaster. 
James Donely, Sergeant-Major. 
Edward Dever, Quarterinaster-Sergt. 



Stephens' Company 



Mic.vH Taul, Captain. 
William Stephens, Lieutenant. 
Bartholomew Hayden, Ensign. 
Thomas Miller, First Sergeant. 
Andrew Evans, Second Sergeant. 
Alex.\nder Davis, Third Sergeant. 



Silas Shephard, Fourth Sergeant. 
John Heav^ens, First Corporal. 
David Worsham, Second Corporal. 
John Anderson, Third Corporal. 
Dempsey WhiTEney, Fourth Corporal. 



privates 



Ayres, Bailey, 
Bailey, Thomas, 
Bond, Isaac, 



Bond, WiUiam, 
Bookout, Benjamin, 
Bramblet, Nathaniel. 



Coffee, Sail, 
Cooper, James, 
Cotton, James, 



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Cox, John, 
Davis, Drury, 
Devers, Edmund, 
Dodson, Robert, 
Duncan, George, 
Duncan, William, 
Dunwiddie, William, 
Elain, Edmund, 
Elrod, Harmon, 
Elrod, Jeremiah, 
Gholson, Benjamin, 
Gholson, Samuel, 
Goodrich, John, 
Hadden, James, 
Hadon, Richard M., 
Hawkers, John, 
Hickenbotham, Moses, 
Hix, John, 



Hudgers, Joseph, 
Hunter, James, 
Hutcherson, John, 
Hutcherson, Robert, 
Jackson, James, 
Jackson, John, 
Jones, Alban, 
Jones, James, 
Larcher, Joseph, 
Lefever, David, 
Long, John, 
Martin, Job, 
Martin, John, 
McGee, Robert, 
McHenry, John, 
McHenry, William, 
Mercer, Nathaniel, 
Mills, Caleb, 

Wilson's Company 



Montgomery, John, 
Moore, Clark, 
Mullens, Charles, 
Newelle, John M., 
Perryficld, Henry, 
Sanders, John, 
Scott, William, 
Shepherd, Isaac, 
Shrewsberry, John, 
Sinclair, Joseph, 
Sloan, William, 
Stacey, Peter, 
Steel, Christian, 
Sutton, William, 
Walker, Gideon, 
Walker, James, 
West, Joshua, 
Woods, Archibald. 



Samuel Wilson, Captain. 
J..\MES Gholson, Lieutenant. 
Samuel Stockton. Ensign. 
Philip Alexander, First Sergeant. 
William Walthall, Second Sergeant. 
Kenian McMullin, Third Sergeant. 



Moses J. Lincoln, Fourth Sergeant. 
William King, First Corporal. 
Aquilla H.\ll, Second CorjKiral. 
Tho.mas Hickland, Third Corporal. 
Samuel Brown, Fourth Corporal. 



Alexander, Greenwood, 
Anderson, Mathew, 
Anderson, William, 
Awtry, John, 
Bailey, William, 
Baker, Obediah, 
Best, James, 
Blakey, Thomas, 
Bland, Warren, 
Bland, WiUiam, 
Bowles, Thomas, 
Bowman, Wilson, 
Bridges, ^\'iUiam, 
Brothers, Thomas, 
'Brummell, Barnet, 
Brummell, John, 
Carter, James 



privates 

Carter, Thomas, 
Chandler, Seady, 
Chrisman, Elijah, 
Chrisman, Joseph, 
Cole, James, 
Davis, William, 
Dicken, Landen, 
Donally, James, 
Enyard, Abner, 
Foster, Michael, 
Gannan, Jacob, 
Graves, Joseph, 
Hill, William, 
Howard, Reuben B., 
Jackson, John, 
King, John E., 



Lynn, James, 
Martin, Jesse, 
Maxwell, Nimrod, 
McCord, John, 
McMullin, John, 
Obanion, John, 
Owens, Elijah, 
Rayburn, FVancis, 
Savage, Hamilton, 
Savage, Levin, 
Sims, John, 
Smith, Mathew, 
Taylor, James W., 
Wash, John, 
Williams, John, 
Wilson, James. 



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Appendix 



Wood's Company 



William Wood, Captain. 
Arthur Frogg, Lieutenant. 
Hdw.vrd Beck, Ensign. 
William H. Talbot, First Sergeant. 
Jonathan Smith, Second Sergeant. 
Samuel Scott, Third Sergeant. 



Solomon Long, Fuurth Sergeant. 
James Lackey, First Corporal. 
Joseph Bradon, Second Corporal. 
Ch.^rlEs Silvers, Third Corporal 
James Brents, Fourth Corporal. 



Appleby, Robert, 
Blankenship, David, 
Calhoun, John, 
Campbell, William, 
Clayton, Beverly W., 
Coffee, Joseph, 
Conner, James, 
Conner, Joseph, 
Davis, John, 
Ellis, John, 
Embree, Moses, 
Ferril, Robert, 
Flower, Charles H., 



privates 

Frogg, William, 
Grider, Joshua, 
Grimsley, Caye, 
Irwin, John, 
Irwin, William, 
Martin, Joshua, 
Mathews, Lott R., 
McDowell, John, 
Myers, Daniel L., 
Nichols, Edward, 
Northcut, John, 
Owens, Nicholas, 
Pointer, Cornelius, 



Reynolds, Charles, 
Russell, James, 
Smith, Henry, 
Sproul, Alexander, 
Sproul, Joseph, 
Stockton, Daniel, 
Taylor, Jonathan, 
Thresher, William, 
Trotter, James, 
Williams, James, 
Williams, James J., 
Williams, John. 



Tate's Company 



Samuel Tate, Captain, 
Robert Gilmore, Lieutenant. 
Jonathan Smith, Ensign. 
Samuel Nevvall, First Sergeant. 



William H.avs, Second Sergeant. 
Thomas Gibson, Third Sergeant. 
RorEbT Cowan, Fourth Sergeant. 



Barns, Adam, 
Barrier, James, 
Beard, Abraham, 
Beaty, James, 
Bell, James, 
Bregis, Edmund, 
Buster, William, 
Clarke, Elisha, 
Cooper, Acey, 
Cowan, Isaac, 
Cox, Allen, 
Cundiff, Gregory, 
Davis, Fields, 
Davison, Henry, 
Dishman, John, 



Dunham, Alex, 
Evins, Samuel, 
Garner, Parish, 
Gasper, Achilles, 
Gibson, Martin, 
Gilmore, John, 
Gilmore, William, 
Hargis, Thomas, 
Hast, Israel, 
Herring, Joshua, 
Hickman, Lewallin, 
Higgins, James, 
Hines, James, 
Hughes, Hiram, 
Humphries, David, 



Hunter, Thomas, 
Kelly, Joseph, 
Lankford, Garrard, 
Lewis, John, 
Martin, John, 
Mathews, William, 
Mayfield, Reuben, 
McDonald, Andrew, 
McKinney, James, 
Mintin, William, 
Murphy, Bennet, 
Neal, Isaac, 
Nealey, Isaac, 
Owens, John, 
Owens, William, 



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Preston, William, 
Richardson, Joel, 
Richardson, Stephen, 
Ridge, Robertson, 
Roberts, John, 
Scott, Allen, 
Short, John, 



Short, Reuben, 
Short, Thomas, 
Smith, James, 
Stagsdill, William, 
St. John, Noah, 
Sutherford, James, 

Laughlin's Company 



Turlcy, Standford, 
Vanhook, Sullivan, 
Wliite, John, 
Willis, Henry, 
Wonlland, Thomas, 
Yeanis, John. 



Thom.\s Laughlin, Captain. 
George W. Craig, First Lieutenant. 
Nathaniel D. Moore, Second Lieut. 
Joseph Earley, Ensign. 
Angus Ross, First Sergeant. 
LoTT Pitman, Second Sergeant. 



George TyE, Third Sergeant. 
Charles Rachhold, Fourth Sergeant. 
Thomas Scott, First Corporal. 
Jonathan Evans, Second Corporal. 
Archib.\ld Zachaway, Third Corporal. 
John S. Laughlin, Fourth Corporal. 



Bailey, Thomas, 
Baker, Overton, 
Barton, John, 
Bayers, Samuel, 
Blake, Achilles, 
Blake, John, 
Bledson, Joseph, 
Bodkin, William, 
Boyd, Sanmel, 
Campbell, William L., 
Carpenter, Wm. K., 
Caston, John, 
Cole, David M., 
Craig, Joseph, 
Demass, Andrew, 
Downey, George, 
Early, Wilham, 
Edwards, William, 



privates 

Ellison, Hugh, 
Evans, Hugh, 
Fergerson, William, 
Fortner, Jonas, 
Gentry, Elijah, 
Gibson, James, 
Hancock, Thomas, 
Holt, Drewry, 
LaughUn, John D., 
McWhirter, Robert, 
Miller, Martin, 
Newton, Amos, 
Nicholson, Leonard, 
Offutt, William, 
Pemberton, John, 
Poange, John, 
Raper, Jesse, 
Raper, Lewis, 



Richards, John, 
Rass, John, 
Rass, Samuel, 
Sams, James, 
Scruggs, John, 
Smith, Joseph, 
Stewart, James, 
Stewart, John, 
SuUivan, Charles, 
Swift, Elias, 
Tirpin, Obediah, 
Tramball, Demoss, 
Truman, William, 
Tye, Joshua, 
White, Hendrick, 
White, John, 
WiUiams, Thomas, 
Wright, John. 



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EIGHTH REGIMENT 



(CALLOWAY'S) 



John Calloway, Colonel. 

John Arnold, Major. 

Philip White, Major. 

Benjamin Bridges, Quartermaster. 

Benjamin Bridges, Paymaster. 

Joshua Norwell, Adjutant. 



Robert D. Dawson, Surgeon. 
James M. Baxley, Surgeon's Mate 
Moses Kirkp.\trick, Second Surgeon's 

Mate. 
Gabriel Field, Sergeant-Major. 



Kite's Company 



James Kite, Captain. 
Isaac Clark, Lieutenant. 
William Cooper, Ensign. 
Richard Mills, First Sergeant. 
Charles Duncan, Second Sergeant. 



Francis W Davis, Third Sergeant. 
Jeremy Snyder, Fourth Sergeant. 
William Cummins, First Corporal. 
James Moore, Second Corporal. 
Lewis Miller, Third Corporal. 



Applegate, Tunis, 
Batman, Thomas, 
Cardell, George, 
Carrel, Samuel, 
Chadburn, Joseph, 
Chambers, George M., 
Collins, Rezin B., 
Crow, William, 
Earickson, William, 
Elzie, Elzie, 
Fields, Gabriel, 



privates 

Gatewood, James, 
Hall, James M., 
Henry, Stewart, 
Hite, Joseph, 
Hornback, Abram, 
Humphries, William C, 
Lewis, William, 
McCloy, WiUiara, 
Merriwether, David H., 
Mucleroy, Henry, 
Newkirk, Jacob, 



Ramsey, Abraham, 
Ross, Mervin, 
Ross, Robert, 
Smith, Elias B., 
Standerferd, Nathan, 
Stephens, James, 
Vanmeter, Henry, 
Vann, Joseph, 
Walls, Samuel, 
White, Everet. 



Robinson Graham, Captain. 

John Hays, Lieutenant. 

John R. Noland, Ensign. 

Benjamin B. Johnston, First Sergeant 

Edmund Vaughn, Second Sergeant 

William J. Phillips, Third Sergeant. 



Graham's Company 

Barnett Arnold, Fourth Sergeant. 
Willia.m Owen, First Corporal. 
John Woods, Second Corporal. 
Benjamin Rarsen, Third Corporal. 
William Church, Fourth Corporal. 



Burk, Henry, 
Cashier, Lewis, 
Cook, Seth, 
Craig, Joseph, 
Edrington, John, 
Graham, William, 



privates 

Hatton, Robert C, 
Hicklin, Thomas, 
Hughes, James M., 
Irvin, PauHs E., 
McDowell, John A., 
Mitchell, Alexander L 



Pattie, Daniel, 
Porter, Jeremiah, 
Settles, Bennet G,, 
Shannon, Samuel, 
Wayren, Thomas, 
Chedle, Burch. 



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Shirelv's Company 



Philip Shirely, Captain. 
William Shirely, Lieutenant. 
William C McKex'ney, Ensign. 
JosHU.\ Gore, First Sergeant. 
Willis B.vll.\rd, Second Sergeant. 
John H. Ferry, Third Sergeant. 



Timothy Gilman, Fourth Sergeant. 
James Farnsley, First Corporal. 
Sandford, LE\\^s, Second Corporal. 
William Stowers, Third Corporal. 
Thomas Stewart, Fourth Corporal. 



privates 



Bartlelt, John, 
Bowen, Arnold, 
Bradway, Abner, 
Brener, Frederick, 
Catt, John C, 
Churchill, WiUiam, 
Compton, Richard, 
Cottenhaur, George L., 
Danset, John, 
Duff, Patrick, 
Floyd, Nathaniel, 
Hagen, Charles, 
Heaton, Daniel, 



Hollis, Fielding, 
HoUis, John, 
Hollis, Lewis, 
Hollis, WilUam, Jr., 
Job, John, 
Johnston, Lancelot, 
Malott, Hiram, 
Martin, Andrew, 
Moore, Daniel, 
Morrison, George, 
Polly, John, 
Reece, George, 
Roberts, Lawrence, 



Rothwell, Ray, 
Sale, William, 
Shaw, Archibald, 
Stameter, Andrew, 
Todd, John, 
Torryhill, Adams, 
\'ance, WiUiara, 
Waid, George, 
Williams, James, 
Woods, John, 
Woods, John, Jr., 
Woods, Timothy, 
Graves, James. 



George's Company 

John C.\LLOW.\y, Captain. 
Edward George, Lieutenant. 
Benjamin Coons, Ensign. 
John Jones, First Sergeant. 
"Moses Hogland, Second Sergeant. 
William Sublett, Third Sergeant. 



Jeremi.\h M. Dupuy, Fourth Sergeant. 
Elias DejarnETT, First Corporal. 
Archibald Cosby, Second Corporal. 
Joseph Weaver, Third Corporal. 
N.\thaniel Stephens, Fourth Corporal. 



Admise, Jacob, 
Admise, Wilham, 
Bell, George, 
Bell, Richard, 
Bennett, WilUam, 
Button, James, 
Button, John, 
Button, Reuben, 
Button, William, 
Calloway, James, 
Clem, Isaac, 
Coons, Daniel, 



privates 

Duncan, WilHs, 
English, James, 
English, Levin, 
English, Robert, 
Farley, Thomas, 
Felps, Harris, 
Fore, Peter, 
Gillum, Charles, 
Legan, John, 
Lemaster, Zachariah, 
Loch, David, 
Love, John R., 



Monroe, W'illiam, 
Mount, Thomas, 
Mount, Thomas J., 
Nay, Bennet, 
Nay, James, 
Nay, John, 
Peggs, Jacob, 
Pemberton, Thomas, 
Poland, James, 
Prewitt, Michael, 
Prior, John, 
Read, James, 



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Appendix 



Roberts, Joseph, 
Roberts, Merrie, 
Rass, William, 
Sanford, Daniel, 
Sanford, Lawrence, 
Smith, Henry, 



Smith, Owen, 

Sparks, Walter, 

Stevens, John, 

Sublett, James (musician), 

Tidwell, WiUiam, 

Troutman, James, 

Kelley's Comtany 



Turk, Robert, 
Varble, George, 
Webb, John, 
\\'ebb, Robert, 
Whitesides, Joseph, 
Wiman, Adam. 



Samuel Kellev, Captain. 
John Shaw, Lieutenant. 
Benj.\min Bridges, Ensign. 
James Edw.\rds, First Sergeant. 
James MayfiEld, Second Sergeant. 
George A. Frederick, Third Sergeant. 

privates 



Robert Stewart, Fourth Sergeant. 
Philip Zilhart, First Corporal. 
John W. Slaughter, Second Corporal. 
Thomas Mayfield, Third Corporal. 
Emanuel Stuckey, Fourth Corporal. 



Anderson, Thomas, 
Asher, William, 
Barhill, William, 
Batman, John, 
Batman, Thomas, 
Blankenboker, Benj , 
Blankenboker, John H., 
Bleven, James, 
Bohannon, Charles, 
Boyd, Frederick, 
Brookhart, David, 
Buckner, Robert, 
Calloway, Thomas P., 
Chenoweith, Absalom, 
Collier, George, 
Crooks, Jacob, 
Crooks, John, 
Crum, Andrew, 
Dawsey, F.lias, 
Denham, Christian, 
Erickson, Perrygrime, 
Frederick, Andrew, 



Gausney, John, 
Goben, WiUiam, 
Grimes, James, 
Grijjhey, Samuel, 
Guthery, James, 
Harboth, John, 
Harden, Henry, 
House, Benjamin, 
HoUingsworth, Isaac, 
Jobe, William, 
Johnson, Bryant, 
Kelley, John, 
Kirkpatrick, Moses, 
Litefoot, Gutredy, 
Maple, Arthur, 
Matfield, Weat, 
Maxwell, William, 
Mayfield, Isaac, 
McCartney, Andrew, 
Oldham, George, 
Right, John, 
Roben, John, 

Heddin's Company 



Rose, Allen, 
Rose, James, 
Seaton, Richard, 
Sebolt, George, 
Shake, John, 
Sharpe, Edward, 
Smith, Joseph, 
Sparks, James, 
Stafford, Thomas, 
Stewart, James, 
Taylor, William, 
Tyler, George, 
Tyler, Zachariah, 
Veach, Alexander, 
Veach, Elliott, 
Ward, James, 
Ward, John, 
W^ebb, John, 
Weems, James, 
Whitney, Robert, 
Williams, Moses, 
Wood, Henry. 



ElE.azor Heddin, Captain. 
WiLLi.AM Hall, Lieutenant. 
Andrew Young, Ensign. 
Thomas Griffith, First Sergeant. 
Henry Farmer, Second Sergeant. 



Ale.xander Stewart, Third Sergeant 
Ch.\rles Stewart, Fourth Sergeant. 
Cyprus Wiley, First Corporal. 
Henry Banta, Second Corporal. 
Elijah Vand.\riff, Third Corporal. 



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241 



Allen, Harris, 
Baker, Andrew, 
Baxter, James, 
Baxter, Jesse, 
Bryan, Robert, 
Carter, Thomas, 
Chriswell, Robert, 
Clarke, Lawrence, 
Carnine, Richard, 
Cubbage, James, 
Dumarrell, Daniel, 
Eastham, George, 



PRIVATES 

Ellison, David, 
Green, Benjamin, 
Green, James, 
Green, John, Jr., 
Green, Richard, 
Hawkins, James, 
Higgs, Roddin, 
Martin, Robert, 
Moore, Jeremiah, 
Parks, James, 
Ringle, William, 



Shcalds, Alexander, 
Stewart, Asa, 
Sutton, James, 
Tendle, Kendle, 
Terrel, Reuben, 
Tingle, Edward, 
Tucker, James, 
\'anderver, John, 
\\'ingfield, James, 
Winscott, William, 
Chadwick, Benjamin. 



NINTH REGIMENT 
(SIMRALL'S) 



James Simr.u,l, Lieutenant-Colonel. 
Thom.^s Johnston, Major. 
Benj.\min Log.\n, Major. 
William E. Young, Lieut, and Adjutant. 
Fielding Winlock, Lieut, and Quarter- 
master. 
George Gay, Lieutenant. 



Robert Thruston, Surgeon. 
John Moore, Surgeon's Mate. 
Benjamin F. Dupuy, Sergeant-Major. 
Nathaniel W. Pope, Quartermaster- 
Sergeant. 
PiERSON Willis, Forage Master. 
Fielding Winlock, Paymaster. 



Hall's Company 



John H.\ll, Captain. 
Is.\AC Watkins, First Lieutenant. 
John M\xEs, Jr., Second Lieutenant. 
Alexander Ferguson, Ensign. 
Benjamin F. Dupuy, First Sergeant. 
MiCAjAH W. Sharpe, Second Sergeant. 



James M\xES, Third Sergeant. 
William Cardwell, Fourth Sergeant. 
Jacob Cardwell, First Corporal. 
John Craw'Ford, Second Corporal. 
Christopher G. Simpson, Third Corp'l. 
John L. Simpson, Fourth Corporal. 



Boice, William, 
Booker, Edward M., 
Boone, Samuel, 
Booth, Thomas, 
Bosley, James, 
BowUng, John, 
Brookie, William, 
Butter, Moses, 



privates 

Carr, John, 
Chew, Samuel, 
Conley, Thomas, 
Crenshaw, James, 
Dougherty, Joseph, Jr., 
Ferguson, John, 
Fore, Peter G., 
Greathouse, William, 



Gueny, George, 
Hannah, William, 
Helm, Joseph, 
Jackson, John, 
Johnson, Thomas, 
Kay, James, 
McClelland, John, 
McFadden, James, 



242 



Appeiidix 



Miller, Nicholas, 
Millis, William, 
Mitchell, Samuel H., 
Moore, John, 
Myles, Richard, 
Nash, Marvel M., 
Ogden, Masterson, 
Peay, Turner, 
Perry, WiUis, 
PoUey, John, 
Robbins, William, 
Roysden, Jesse F., 
Ryon, Robert, 
Sawyers, James, 



Sawyers, Sampson, 
Sellrey, Solomon, 
Short, Peter, 
Smith, Samuel, 
Stillwell, Isaiah, 
Swearingen, Hornson, 
Thursby, James, 
Thurston, Robert, 
Tilford, Jeremiah, 
Todd, Robert, 
Turnstall, Thomas, 
Wayland, Abram, 
Wells, William, 

Ellmore's Company 



White, Andrew, 
White, Robert, 
Wilcox, George, Sr., 
Wilcox, George, Jr., 
Willis, Pierson, 
Wood, Harvey, 
Wood, John, 
Woodfork, James, 
Workman, William, 
Gray, George, 
Lock, John D., 
Penn, Shadrach, 
Pendleton, James T. 



Warner Ellmore, Captain. 
Richard Patterson, First Lieutenant. 
Thomas M. Emmerson, Ensign. 
Benjamin F. Cook, First Sergeant. 
Andrew H. BrownlEE, Second Sergt. 
Coalman C. Spiller, Third Sergeant. 



Barret White, Fourth Sergeant. 
Gabriel N. Buckner, First Corporal. 
CoLELV Cowherd, Second Corporal. 
John Durham, Third Corporal. 
James Harris, Fourth Corporal. 



Adams, William, 
Allen, James J., 
Barbee, John, 
Barret, Robert, 
Bass, John, 
Blakcman, James, 
Blakeman, John, 
Brownlee, Alexander, 
Brownlee, William, 
Buckner, Aylett, 
Buckner, James B., 
Buckner, John, 
Cabmess, John M., 
Caldwell, Andrew, 
Canada, Elijah, 
Chisteen, John L., 
Churning, Hardin, 
Clark, Reuben, 
Compton, William, 
Cook, William B., 
Cowherd, Yelverton, 



privates 

Deaven, Richard, 
Edrington, Robert, 
Embry, Samuel P., 
Farris, John, 
Fisher, John, 
Forbes, Yates, 
Greer, Solomon, 
Hood, Robert, 
Jarvis, Edward, 
Johnson, Isaiah, 
Jones, Robert, 
Landers, Jacob, 
Lee, William, 
Lennnons, Jolm, 
Lemmons, Rudie, 
Lewis, Henderson, 
Marshal, Sanmel, 
Martin, Peter, 
McDaniel, Edward, 
Minor, John, 



Pepper, Daniel, 
Phillips, John, 
Pierce, Thomas, 
Price, John, 
Price, Reuben, 
Rhear, Arche, 
Rhear, William, 
Richardson, Thomas, 
Roger, John, 
Shenault, John, 
Short, Horatio, 
Short, William, 
Sprouls, EUeck, 
Stovall, William, 
Vaughan, John, 
Vaughan, William, 
Wheler, Ceburn, 
WilUan, Thomas, 
Williams, Joel, 
Wilson, Isaac. 



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Smith's Comtany 



Presley C. Smith, Captain. 
Martin Harding, Lieutenant. 
John Hardin, Ensign. 
James WaTkins, First Sergeant. 
Owen D. Thomas, Second Sergeant. 
Hardin Thomas, Third Sergeant. 



Joseph MaTTincly, Fourth Sergeant. 
BennET M.vTTIngly, First Corporal. 
Elias Russell, Second Corporal. 
James Mattingly, Third Corporal. 
Joseph Brown, Fourth Corporal. 



Baley, Thomas, 
Brother, Samuel, 
Brown, Benjamin, 
Carrico, Benedict, 
Casey, John, 
Chamberlain, Liles, 
Cotter, Charles, 
Crosgrove, Charles, 
Daley, John, 
Dinking, Thomas, 
Edlin, Benjamin, 
Flanagan, James, 



PRIVATES 

Gates, Ehsha, 
Goudy, Samuel, 
Green, Leonard, 
Hamilton, Edward, 
Horbin, Jeremiah, 
Hardin, Otho, 
Jarbor, WiUiam S., 
Ivcigh, Henry, 
Lyons, Charles W., 
Michaels, George, 
Mudd, Henderson, 
Newton, James, 

Whittaker's Company 



PhilUps, Philip, 
Powell, Charles, 
Quiggins, John, 
Quiggins, Joseph, 
Richardson, Benjamin, 
Riggs, Abraham, 
Riggs, James, 
Smith, Thomas, 
Summers, John S., 
Watkins, Joseph, 
Wheatley, James, 
Yates, John. 



James S. WhittakER, Captain. 
Joseph W. Knight, First Lieutenant. 
James L. Holmes, Second Lieutenant, 
John Whittaker, Ensign. 
William Dugan, First Sergeant. 
Joshua Rutlidge, Second Sergeant. 
Thomas Wright, Third Sergeant. 

privates 



John G. Anderson, Fourth Sergeant. 
James Figg, Jr., First Corporal. 
Woodson, E.vslEy, Second Corporal. 
MoNAS Hansborough, Third Corporal. 
Robert Anderson, Fourth Corporal 
John W. Young, Trumpeter. 



Allen, John M., 
Allen, William, 
Anderson, William, 
Brewer, George W., 
Burnett, Henry, 
Christian, Martin S., 
Collett, Aaron, 
Colher, John, 
Daniel, George, 
Edwards, Leroy, 
Farmer, Ehas, 
Figg, WiUiam, 
Gee, James, 



Gee, William, 
Graves, David, 
Graves, Samuel, 
Gresham, Henry, 
Harris, Jonah, 
Hastings, William, 
Hollis, John P., 
Holt, Thomas B., 
Jacobs, James, 
Jacobs, Samuel, 
Jones, John W., 
Legg, George, 
McClelland, Joseph G.; 



McCormack, Richard, 
Minor, Spence, 
Murphy, John, 
O'Neal, James, 
Polly, Peter, 
Pope, Nathaniel W., 
Proctor, James, 
Purcell, David, 
Randal, James, 
Reynolds, Thomas, 
Roberts, Henry, 
Roberts, Jesse, 
Robinson, John G., 



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Appendix 



Rodman, Thomas, 
Rodman, William, 
Romine, Samuel, 
Runey, Absalom, 
Russell, George, 
Russell, Hedgeman, 
Sharp, William T., 



Stewart, Thomas, 
Strangham, Nathaniel, 
Thompson, David, 
Thompson, William, 
Tyler, Robert, Jr., 
Vanmeter, William, 



Walls, WilUam, 
Washburn, Delaney 
Washburn, John B., 
Whittaker, Seth, 
Wilson, Samuel, 
Winlock, Fielding. 



Richard Bennett, Captain. 
WiLLi.vM RoBiNsoN; Lieutenant. 
Jesse Kennedy, Ensign. 
James McBr.wer, First Sergeant. 
Samuel McGuire, Second Sergeant. 
William Robinson, Third Sergeant 



Bennett's Company 

William Hensey, Fourth Sergeant. 
Drury Pullam, First Corporal. 
John Crockett, Second Corporal. 
Nathan Watson, Third Corporal. 
Elij.ah Kennedy, Fourth Corporal. 



Albin, Phihp, 
Arnold, John, 
Berry, George, 
Brown, Robert, 
Clark, Matthew, 
Cole, Ehjah, 
Crockett, Anthony, 
Hawkins, Moses, 
Macey, Gustavus S., 



PRIVATES 

Mackey, John, 
Mahoney, Benjamin, 
Major, Thomas P., 
Motherhead, John, 
Paxton, Thomas, 
Pemberton, Henry, 
Pullam, Benjamin, 
Robinson, Gabriel, 
Robinson, Robert, 

Harbison's Company 



Sercy, Isaac, 
Sercy, Merit, 
Smart, John C, 
Taylor, Tekal, 
White, Averitt, 
White, Phil, 
Oldburn, Phihp, 
Robinson, James, 
Miles, James T. 



Samuel Harbison, Captain. 

James Ford, Lieutenant. 

Thomas Gaither, Second Lieutenant. 

John Shannon, Cornet. 

George P. Miller, First Sergeant. 

William Harbison, Second Sergeant. 



John Ford, Third Sergeant. 
John Sharp, Fourth Sergeant. 
Leroy, Wintsworth, First Corporal. 
William Grooms, Second Corporal. 
Joseph Duncan, Third Corporal. 
William Smith, Fourth Corporal. 



Boyd, James P., 
Booky, Robert, 
Burton, John, 
Burton, Preteman, 
Clifton, William B., 
Ducker, Nathan, 
Duncan, Jacob, 
Elliott, John, 
Finley, William C, 
Fisher, Zachariah, 
Gibson, John F., 



privates 
Gilbert, Elnathan, 
Hardesty, Henry H., 
Harlow, George, 
Huston, James, 
Lemon, James, 
Mahan, William, 
Neal, Elias, 
Orsborn, George, 
Riddle, George, 
Riddle, Thomas, 



Roberts, William, 
Robinson, Jesse, 
Shrouders, Abram, 
Sill, Adam, 
Thomas, Joseph, 
Thompson, James C, 
Thompson, WilHam, 
Venable, James, 
Wood, Isaac, 
Hood, Isaac. 



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TENTH REGIMENT 
(BARBOUR'S) 



Philip Barbour, Lieutenant-Colonel. 
John Gorin, Major. 
John Barnett, Major. 
Thomas Polland, Surgeon. 
Horatio D. Gnatkin, Adjutant. 



Thomas Boothe, Surgeon's Mate. 
Thomas B Lee, Paymaster. 
James T. Barbour, Quartermaster. 
Lucius Duvall, Sergeant-Major. 
John Milroy, Quarterinaster-SergeaiU. 



Ewing's Company 



Wii<UAM EwiNG, Captain. 

Daniel Hov, Ensign. 

Charles J. SublETT, First Sergeant. 



J.\mes Davidson, Seconil Sergeant. 
Georce Day, Corporal. 



Airs, Henry, 
Blackwell, Grant, 
Brown, Bowlin, 
Cravens, Elijah, 
Davis, Edward, 
Day, James, 
Deen, Robert A., 



Finley, Samuel, 
Funkhouser, Wilson L., 
Funkhouser, Young, 
Gidcomb, John, 
Hartgrave, William, 
Howard, James, 
Porter, Francis, 

Ewing's Company 
Young Ewing, Ensign. 



Porter, Oliver, 
Read, James, 
Read, Rol^ert, 
McFarland, William, 
Deen, Olden, 
Tublett, Jordon. 



Thomas KellEY, Sergeant. 



William Appling, Corporal. 



Bradley, Richard, 
Brian, Alexander, 
Chestnut, Samuel, 
Dake, David, 



Gibson, Jordan, 
Gorin, Gladdin, 
HoUeday, Zachariah, 

Yates' Company 



McFarlin, Andrew M 
Shaw, Joel, 
Vanmeter, Jacob. 



Robert E. Yates, Captain. 

Robert Sconce, Lieutenant. 

Isaac Thom.\s, Ensign. 

James B. Sutterville, First Sergeant. 



John Vanmeter, Second Sergeant. 
Benjamin Keith, First Corporal. 
Moses SurroN, Second Corjioral. 



privates 



Able, John, 
Anderson, James, 
Artman, John, 
Barnes, James, 



Brown, William, 
Burtle, Joseph, 
Campbell, Allen, 
Cleaver, William, 



Downs, William, 
Ferry, Moses, 
Keller, Frederick, 
Love, James, 



246 



Appendix 



McLure, John, 

Miller, Michael, 
Oldham, Daniel D., 
Oldham, John, 
Porter, John, 



Prunty, Robert, 

Purtle, Uriah, 
Rhoades, Samuel, 
Saltsman, George, 
Sconce, John, 



Sutton, John, 
Vanmeter, Nathan, 
Williams, John, 
Wiley, James, 
Blain, William. 



Wilson's Company 



Philip Barbour, Captain. 
Daniel Wilson, Lieutenant. 
Nevil Lindsev, Ensign. 



Andrew Burk, First Sergeant. 
Thomas A. Griffin, Second Sergeant. 



privates 



Barbour, James T., 
Bentley, William, 
Bradshaw, Jonathan, 
Cheatham, Baxter D., 
Clay, Thomas, 
Dixon, Robert, 
Fryley, Martin, 
Fuquay, Benjamin, 



Gnatkins, Horatio D., 
Hart, David, 
Johns, Thomas, 
Jones, Adam, 
Lambert, Evan, 
Lambert, WilHara, 
Mayes, Branch V., 
McClain, Andrew W., 

Whitsett's Company 



Pollard, Thomas, 
Richardson, Steven A., 
Scott, Charles, 
Scott, John, 
Tate, John, 
Walder, William, 
Wilson, George. 



William Whitsett, Captain. 
Robert P. B. Caldwell, First Lieut. 
William S. Lofland, Second Lieut. 
James McDonald, Ensign. 
Solomon Hunter, First Sergeant, 
John B. Curd, Second Sergeant. 



EzEKiEL Smith, Third Sergeant. 

John Williams, Fourth Sergeant. 
John Coner, First Corporal. 
Lewis Parker, Second Corporal. 
John Thomas, Third Corporal. 
Hiram Jameson, Fourth Corporal. 



Barnett, James, 
Barnett, John, 
Barnett, Morgan, 
Bibb, John B., 
Bigger, John H., 
Bishop, James, 
Caldwell, Samuel, 
Call, Jacob, 
Cason, Denis B., 
Cooksy, Theophilus, 
Copland, Lewis W., 
Crittenden, Robert, 
Dawson, Robert, 
Davenport, Richard, 
Dougan, Jeremiah, 



privates 

Duevall, Lucius, 
Dunscomb, Samuel, 
Ewing, John L., 
Fitzhugh, John, 
Gilleland, John, 
Glascow, Samuel, 
Glisson, Thomas, 
Green, George, 
Griggs, John, 
Ham, Joshua, 
Harrison, Barkley, 
Herndon, James, 
Hester, Middleton, 
Hickman, George, 
Jackson, Charles, 



Johns, Jorden, 
Kenerly, John W., 
Kerr, David, 
King, John B., 
Kircheval, Thomas. 
Lion, James G., 
Lofland, James, 
Manksfield, James 
McFall, John, 
McGoodwin, James, 
Mcintosh, John, 
Mcintosh, Samuel, 
Milhcan, John, 
Moore, Richard, 
Neeley, Charles 



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247 



Nurse, James H., 
Nurse, William, 
Ogden, Thomas, 
Patten, John, 
Patterson, Robert, 
Posey, Lane W., 
Price, Mayor, 
Rafferty, Samuel, 
Raghdale, Frederick, 



Reed, James, 
Sands, James, 
Saterfield, Archibald, 
Shelton, Thomas, 
Slaughter, Phihp, 
Sprigs, Gilbert, 
Stephens, John, 
Sumner, Landy, 

McCloskey's Company 



Taylor, James W.. 
Trimble, John, 
Usry, John, 
Walker, David, 
West, Leonard, 
Lee, Thomas, 
Duncan, James M., 
Thomas, John. 



Joseph McCloskey. Captain. 
John Wooten, Lieutenant. 
John Huston, Second Lieutenant. 
John Robinson, Ensign. 
John Milroy, First Sergeant. 
S.\MUEL Pitman, Second Sergeant. 



Samuel W.\Tson, Third Sergeant. 
Thomas Heady, Fourtli Sergeant. 
John Brown, First Corporal. 
Stephen M.\y, Second Corporal. 
S.\muEL Howard, Third Corporal 
Samuel Brown, Fourth Corporal. 



Ash, Benjamin, 
Ash, George, 
Baldwin, James, 
Batman, William, 
Bell, John, 
Bennett, Samuel, 
Boley, Nicholas, 
Brown, James H., 
Clarke, Thomas, 
Combs, Amos, 
Cook, WilUam, 
Cotton, Edward, 
Davis, Joseph W., 
Doddson, Wesley, 
Edwards, Travis, 
Flick, John, 
Glass, James, 



PRIVATES 

Graham, John P., 
Guthrie, John, 
Harman, Thomas, 
Heady, Squire, 
Herrald, James, 
Herrington, Jeremiah, 
Hilton, William, 
Hunley, Sherwood, 
Kendle, James, 
King, Willis, 
Lowber, Peter, 
Lusher, Jacob, 
May, Anderson, 
McClelland, Robert, 
McMickam, Charles, 
Mills, Ely, 

Payne's Company 



Mug, Benjamin, 
Mug, William, 
Murphy, John, 
Remy, Butler G., 
Roads, Barney, 
Robert, Abner, 
Russell, Samuel, 
Selch, Nicholas, 
Sherley, Joshua, 
Smiley, William, 
Vanwender, James, 
Watson, John, 
Wilcocks, Isaac, 
Wilson, John, 
Wilson, William, 
Wyatt, Luutzeford. 



William R. P.une, Captain. 
Richard D. Neale, First Lieutenant. 
James Maxev, Second Lieutenant. 
Hiram RoundTrEE, Ensign. 
John Brewer, First Sergeant. 
William Hendricks, Second Sergeant. 



William Briggs, Third Sergeant. 
James Ford, Fourth Sergeant. 
Henry GridER, First Corporal. 
John Boyd, Second Corporal. 
Shadrick, Hays, Third Corporal. 
Thomas Edmonson, Fourth Corporal. 



248 



Appendix 



Airy, John, 
Ambrose, Jacob, 
Barclay, Eli, 
Barnes, James, 
Barnes, William, 
Birch, Cheadle, 
Boice, Jesse, 
Bowen, Reece, 
Bowsman, Samuel, 
Briggs, James T., 
Brown, William, 
Campbell, James, 
Campbell, Samuel, 
Carter, John, 
Chapman, George, 
Coats, Austin, 
CofFman, Nathan, 
Cole, Andrew H., 
Cawn, William, 
Cox, Frederick, 
Donaldson, Lewis G., 
Dunham, Joseph, 



PRIVATES 

Dunovan, William, 
Fisher, Samuel, 
Grider, John, 
Hobson, Jonathan, 
Inglish, William, 
Johnston, Absalom, 
Jones, Robert P., 
Jones, William, 
Lawrence, Harper, 
Long, Nimrod, 
Lowry, Weat, 
Manance, John, 
Maxey, James, 
McNeal, Pleasant D., 
Moore, Robert, 
Moore, Samuel, 
Neal, Thomas M., 
Patrick, Luke, 
Randall, James, 
Ransdall, Charles M., 
Richardson, John, 
Robinson, David H., 



Scott, Lewis, 
Shanks, Henry, 
Smith, David, 
Smith, William, 
Snowden, Samuel, 
Snowden, William, 
Stroud, John, 
Tindell, Benjamin, 
Todd, Benjamin, 
Turner, Edward, 
Turner, Joel, 
Turner, Levi, 
Turner, Thomas, 
Upton, Elijah, 
Vance, John, 
Wallace, John, 
White, Amos, 
Wingfield, David, 
Wingfield, Jacob, 
Wingfield, Josepli, 
Young, William. 



Walker's Company 
Andrew, Walker, Lieutenant. 



Baker, Abraham, 
Baker, Abram, 
Broon, Isaac, 
Clarke, Drury, 
Clarke, Reuben, 
Clarke, William, 



PRIVATES 

Craddock, Zerrel, 
Hamilton, Adams, 
Hardin, Martin, 
lollilT, James, 
Jones, David, 



Gorin's Company 



Laswell, William, 
McKinney, Charles, 
Pierce, Richard, 
Ray, James, 
Rennick, Henry. 



John Gorin, Captain. 
Charles Harvev, Lieutenant. 
Richard Waggoner, Ensign. 
Joel Franklin, Orderly Sergeant. 
Jesse Berry, Second Sergeant. 
Thomas Cooke, Third Sergeant. 



William Co.\ts, Fourth Sergeant. 
Barker T. Anderson, First Corporal. 
John Franklin, Second Corporal. 
Samuel Mattox, Third Corporal. 
Mahlon Hall, Fourth Corporal. 



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Anderson, William, 
Bailey, Jacob, 
Bennett, Gabriel, 
Berry, Thompson, 
Bishop, Cary, 
Bishop, Thomas, 
Bush, William, 
Brown, Isaac, 
Cosby, Achilles, 
Chapman, Daniel, 
Clarke, John, 
Davidson, Elijah, 
Davidson, James, 
Dishman, William, 
Eubank, Richard, 
Evans, William, 
Fitzgerald, William, 
Fletcher, George W., 
Foster, Barnett, 
Foster, David, 
Foster, James, 



PRIVATES 

Franklin, Martin, 
Goodall, Loddonick, 
Goodwin, Jas., 
Goodwin, John, 
Gray, William, 
Hailey, Maximillian, 
Hall, Joseph, 
Hampton, Amos, 
Hampton, Joshua, 
Hardy, Thomas, 
Humphries, Thomas, 
Jenkins, Richard, 
Jenkins, William, 
Kirtly, Abraham, 
Lowe, Samuel B., 
Mattox, Ignatius, 
Mayfield, Isaac, 
McCuUum, John, 
McMurry, Samuel, 
Melton, Isaac, 

Tyler's Company 



Moss, William, 
Newell, James, 
Perkins, Tarlton, 
Pointer, Rdniond, 
Pointer, John, 
Reed, James, 
Robertson, Thomas, 
Robertson, William, 
Rousey, William, 
Shclton, David, 
Suter, John, 
Turpin, Elisha, 
Waggoner, Reuben, 
Waters, Jacob, 
Wilkerson, Richard, 
Wilson, Richard, 
Melton, Jesse, 
James, David, 
Lofwell, William, 
Penton, Jolm. 



James Tyler, Captain 

Philip Thompson, First Lieutenant. 

Benjamin NewTON, Second Lieutenant. 

Thomas MosElEv, Ensign. 

John Smith, Sergeant. 



John Crow, Sergeant. 
Mason Wood, Sergeant. 
Joseph Garbo, Corporal. 
W.\LTER Crow, Corporal. 
Jesse Crow, Corporal. 



Adkins, Harrison, 
Albin, Reuben, 
Beal, Hilary, 
Coffee, Philip, 
Christian, Charles, 
Condit, Peter, 
Crow, Edward, 
Crumley, John, 
Diamond, JuUan, 
Dulin, William, 
Ford, Warren, 
Files, John, 
Frizzle, Beverly, 
Garnett, Reuben, 
Handcock, Samuel, 



privates 
Hamilton, Thomas, 
Haynes, Daniel, 
Hepsley, Amos, 
Hill, Henry, 
Howell, Mason J., 
Howard, Will, 
Howard, Groves, 
Howard, John, 
Ingram, James, 
Jones, William, 
Lindsey, Thomas, 
Lane, Lewis, 
Madison, James, 
Martin, Thomas, 
Meekley, Henry, 



Milay, William, 
Neal, Thomas, 
Roan, John, 
Rogers, Lewis, 
Shepherd, William, 
Smith, John J., 
Stevens, Joseph, 
Tanner, Thomas, 
Taylor, William, 
Taylor, Joseph, 
Turnbo, George, 
Travis, John, 
Wall, Banister, 
Wayne, Henry L., 
Wilcox, Abraham. 



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ELEVENTH REGIMENT 

(WILLIAMS') 



William Williams, Culonel. 
Jeremiah Stroud, Major. 
Lewis Kincheloe, Major, 
Stephen Taylor, Surgeon. 
John Bennett, Surgeon's Mate. 
Archibald Woods, Adjutant. 



Matthew Clarke, Paymaster. 
James Jones, Quartermaster. 
Will R. Ashby, Quartermaster. 
Will R. Ashby, Quartermaster-Sergt. 
Willis Green, Quartermaster-Sergt 
Will C. Barnett, Sergeant-Major. 



Bayles' Company 



Benjamin Bayles, Captain. 
WiNSLOw Parker, First Lieutenant. 
Jambs A. Paxton, Second Lieutenant. 
PayTON, B. Key, Ensign. 
John P. McKay, Orderly Sergeant. 
Arthur Fox, First Sergeant. 
William B. Johnston, Second Sergt. 



John Samuel, Third Sergeant. 
James Campbell, Fourth Sergeant. 
Abrah.\m Proctor, Corporal. 
Zebulon L. Hart, First Corporal. 
Stephen Lasiibrook, Second Corporal. 
Christian Shultz, Third Corporal. 
George G. Chinn, Fourth Corporal. 



Best, James, 
Blanchard, John, 
Brading, James, 
Brierly, Samuel, 
Brook, Humphrey, 
Bryant, Lewis, 
Bullock, William G., 
Byram, William, 
Cahill, Ellison, 
Chutter, William, 
Corgcll, James, 
Cox, Enoch, 
Cox, Jonathan, 
Dougherty, John, 
Duke, Thomas M., 
Drake, Benjamin, 
Drake, Ralph, 
Dyson, Thomas, 
Edwards, Alexander, 
Ewell, Leroy, 
Glenn, James, 



privates 

Corsage, James, 
Corsage, William, 
Hancock, William, 
Hoge, Nimrod G., 
Hudson, Bailey W., 
Hurst, Harmon, 
Lurton, James, 
McCarty, Nathaniel, 
McCord, WiUiam, 
McClung, Thomas, 
McGalHard, Joseph, 
McKinsey, John, 
McNary, John, 
Means, Amos, 
Moore, Samuel, 
Newdegate, William, 
Nicholson, Thomas, 
Osborne, Wilson S., 
Phillips, Daniel, 
Pool, Thomas, 



Ravenscraft, John, 
Ryan, James, 
Silvers, Joseph, 
,Smith, David, 
Spurrier, Garrard, 
Stubblefield, George W., 
Taylor, Joseph, 
Taylor, Thomas, 
TolHvcr, Benjamin, 
Vandeventer, Peter, 
Vandeventer, Robert, 
Wallingsford, Samuel, 
Wiley, James, 
Wilson, James, 
Wood, Charles, 
Wood, David, 
W'oolfolk, Thomas, 
Yancy, Thomas, 
Glenn, Isaac, 
Wilson, Thomas. 



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Massie's Company 



SiLVANUS Massie, Captain. 
Andrew Briscoe, Lieutenant. 



Joseph Black, Ensign. 
Levi Wiluams, Sergeant. 



Adams, William, 
Bartlett, John, 
Bartlett, Henry, 
Bell, William, 
Bennett, Joshua, 
Burgy, Manson, 
Campbell, Joseph, 
Conn, Francis, 
Conmi, Hiram, 
Corum, John, 
Dunn, James, 
Durbin, Edwards, 
Faulkner, Henry, 
Gentry, Nicholas, 
Gentry, William, 
Griffith, James, 
Gwinn, William, 
Hicks, Robert, 



PRIVATES 

Hicks, WilUam, 
Hunt, Dudley, 
Johnson, Vincent, 
Kavanaugh, Charles, 
Lamb, James, 
Lamb, Pendleton, 
Lamb, Thomas, 
Lowry, William C, 
Martin, David, 
McGuire, Jesse, 
Million, Burrell, 
Perkins, William, 
Powel, Jeremiah, 
Powel, John, 
Powel, Obediah, 
Proctor, William, 
Rafferty, William, 
Reives, Thomas, 



Reynolds, Charles, 
Roberts, George, 
Rummins, Abram, 
Shearer, Hiram, 
Stagner, Jesse, 
Stagner, Thomas, 
Todd, Caleb, 
Todd, Jesse, 
Tamblin, Joel, 
Turner, Enoch, 
Vanbuskirk, John, 
Watson, William, 
Witt, Elisha, 
Witt, Littlebery, 
Wood, Samuel, 
Campbell, Jesse, 
Lamb, Samuel. 



Kincheloe's Company 



Lewis Kincheloe, Captain. 
Charles F. Wing, Lieutenant. 



John Dobvnb, Ensign. 
John W. Langlev, Corporal. 



Baldwin, Herbert W., 
Brown, Frederick, 
Butler, Samuel, 
Culbertson, Robert W. 
Davis, Randolph, 
Davis, William, 
Drake, Mosely, 
Graves, John C, 
Ham, David, 
Harris, Richard, 
Haws, John, 
Hill, Asa, 



PRIVATES 

Hill, John, 
Hill, William, 
McFerson, John, 
Miller, George, 
Murphy, Samuel, 
Neff, Henry, 
O'Neal, Spencer, 
Pace, Daniel, 
Pace, Josel, 
Penrod, George, 
Redmin, Parmenas, 



Roark, William, 
Raco, Henry, 
Segler, Jacob, 
Shelton, John, 
Smith, Hugh, 
Uzzell, Thomas, 
Wilcox, Thomas, 
Worthington, Isaac, 
Row, Henry, 
Jones, Fielding, 
Langley, James. 



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McJilton's Company 



Thomas McJilton, Captain. 
Robert Baker, Lieutenant. 
Pleasant Parker, Ensign. 
Daniel Sybert, Second Sergeant. 
William Harris, Third Sergeant. 



Isaac M.\rtin, Fourth .Sergeant. 
John Seabourne, First Corporal. 
Merrit Hubbard, vSecond Corporal. 
Archibald Ellison, Third Corporal. 
John Casteel, Fourth Corporal. 



Baker, Bowling, 
Bengo, David, 
Bowling, Isham, 
Broadus, Jeremiah, 
Bunch, Garrett, 
Bunch, William, 
Cain, Jacob, 
Callihan, Isaac, 



Dunbar, James, 
Duncil, William, 
Edwards, Meredith, 
Francis, Samuel, 
Hynes, John, 
Lewis, David, 
Love, Granville N., 

Dysart's Company 



Love, James, 
McCoy, David, 
McCammon, William, 
> Morris, George, 
Morris, WilUam, 
Schoolcraft, George, 
Shackleford, Marquis. 



Johnston Dysart, Captain. 
Charles C. Carson, Lieutenant 
Joseph Henderson, Ensign. 
James Wilson, First Sergeant. 
Jacob Frederick, Second Sergeant. 
Isiah Ham, Third Sergeant. 



Samuel Vance, Fourth Sergeant. 
John Bustle, First Corporal. 
John Evans, Second Corporal. 
George Watkins, Third Corporal. 
Is.\ac Dillard, Fourth Corporal. 



Alexander, George, 
Bailey, Hannan, 
Bealey, Reuben, 
Bell, Elijah, 
Bowen, Jacob, 
Brooks, James, 
Brown, Wilson, 
Buford, William, 
Callahan, John, 
Callons, Andrew, 
Colyar, Gabriel, 
Colyar, John, 



privates 

Conn, Alexander, 
Cremon, John, 
Dearmine, Flenion, 
Denning, Levi, 
Dysart, Samuel, 
Graves, William, 
Haley, John, 
Henderson, William, 
Jones, James, 
Lawrence, Thomas, 
McEnturf, Manuel, 
Owens, Allen, 



Owens, Martin, 
Owens, Presley, 
Owens, Samuel, 
Roberts, Hiram, 
Roberts, James, 
Stewart, James, 
Tenner, Silvester, 
Terrell, James, 
Thompson, Joseph, 
Tysah, John, 
Warren, Benjamin, 
White, Joel. 



McWiLLiAMs' Company 



John C. McWilliams, Captain. 
John W. Elliott, Lieutenant. 
Richard Gentry, Ensign. 
James Scott, First Sergeant. 



William Farris, Second Sergeant. 
William Elliott, Third Sergeant. 
James Blythe, Fourth Sergeant. 
Robert Buckner, Corporal. 



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253 



Anderson, Allen, 
Barnett, William C, 
Broadus, Pascal, 
Butcher, Robert, 
Calvin, Jeremiah, 
Cochran, James, 
Cochran, Robert, 
Cochran, William, 
Davis, Asa, 
Dougherty, Cornelius, 
Glascow, Nathan, 
Goen, Francis, 
Goen, Pollard, 
Hawkins, William, 
Haze, David, 
Henson, Francis, 



PRIVATES 

Hopper, James, 
Hopper, John, 
Johnson, Thomas, 
Kirkpatrick, Hugh, 
Mason, William, 
McClane, Richard W., 
McKay, James, 
McNitt, Joseph, 
McWilliams, Alex C, 
Mitchell, Samuel, 
Moore, John, 
Moran, Barnett C, 
Moran, Joshua, 
Ried, James, 
Ried, John, 



Ried, William, 
Ross, Alexander, 
Ross, George, 
Scott, Mathevv, 
Snoddy, Joseph W., 
Stinson, Andrew, 
Stinson, James, 
Tomblin, Ambrose, 
Tomblin, Joel, 
Vaughan, Elisha, 
White, Henry, 
Wiley, Hiram, 
Wiley, Zachariah, 
Woods, William, 
Horan, Joshua. 



Richard C. Holder, Captain. 
Akchib.vld Woods, Lieutenant. 
William Harris, Ensign. 
John Hart, First Sergeant. 
James A. Cannon, Second Sergeant. 
James Barnes, Third Sergeant 



Holder's Company 

Willia.m K.wanaugh, Fourth Sergeant, 
Joseph Bralton, First Corporal. 
Steward Stevens, Second Corporal. 
Willis Green, Third Corporal. 
Tarlton Turner, Fourth Corporal. 



Ashby, William R., 
Barnes, Aswell, 
Bentley, John, 
BiggerstafT, Hiram, 
Charis, Ishmael, 
Clarke, Turner, 
Dickey, William, 
Hasten, Johnson, 
Fox, George, 
FuUilove, Larkin. 
Harris, Samuel, 
Hays, Arthur, 
Hays, Benjamin, 



PRIVATES 

Irvine, Davis, 
Kerley, John, 
Lancaster, Delaney, 
Lancaster, Larkee, 
Lancaster, Littleton, 
McQueen, John, 
Miller, Frederick, 
Moberly, Thomas, 
Newland, Abraham, 
Newman, George, 
Newman, Henry, 
Prophet, Anderson, 
Reid, James, 



Sanford, John D., 
Simon, David, 
Smith, John Speed, 
Taylor, Peter, 
Tribble. John, 
\'aughan. Rarely, 
Waters, Sampson, 
Waters, Samuel, 
Wayne, William, 
While, Nicholas, 
Williams, William, 
Woods, Aswell D., 
Mays, Benjamin. 



Hayden's Company 



John H.vydEn, Captain. 
William Furnish, Lieutenant. 
Jon,\than Hedger, Lieutenant. 
D.wid R.\lston, Ensign. 
Lewis Conner, First Sergeant. 
Noah HalbERT, Second Sergeant. 



William Lindsey, Third Sergeant. 
G.\rnet Hayden, Fourth .Sergeant, 
George Goodnight, First Corporal. 
Martin Odour, Second Corporal. 
Willia.m Porter, Third Corporal. 
William Odour, Fourth Corporal. 



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Appendix 



Alger, Samuel, 
Chandler, George R., 
Clark, John R., 
Dungan, Thomas, 
Eckler, Samuel, 
Ferguson, John, 
Green, William, 
Hutchison, Wilham, 
Kendal, Enoch, 



PRIVATES 

Levi, Hugh, 
Martin, David, 
Martin, John, 
McDowell, Thomas, 
Milner, Edmund, 
Milner, John, 
Mitchell, James, 
Mitchell, Joseph, 
Moore, James, 

Berryman's Company 



Moore, William, 
Mussulman, Daniel, 
Ritter, Lewis, 
Shearer, Michael, 
Shropshire, Wilham, 
Shuppett, Jacob, 
Wells, Bazil, 
Wells, Benjamin, 
Winn, William. 



William Berrvman, Captain. 
Willis J. Williams, First Lieutenant. 
Henry Collins, Ensign. 
Travers Dunc.\n, Sergeant. 
Samuel Keely, Sergeant. 
Joseph Chapman, Sergeant. 



J.\MEs Spillman, Sergeant. 
James MlCollister, Corporal. 
Jesse Kerry, Corporal. 
Upsh.\m Martin, Corporal. 
Robert Duff, Corporal. 
Barnabus Low, Musician. 



Abshear, John, 
Barton, John, 
Barton, Berry, 
Carter, Charles, 
Chapman, Jeremiah, 
Charon, David, 
Dobson, Thomas, 
Davis, John, 
Dawson, Jonathan, 
Dinvv'iddie, James, 
Dobson, James, 
Darrel, David, 
Darral, John, 



privates 

Duncan, Ashley, 
Ellison, George, 
Field, Ambrose, 
Foley, James, 
Gibson, Jacob, 
Gibson, William, 
Gibson, John, 
Hardcastle, William, 
Hardcastle, John, 
Hopson, Alexander, 
Kerby, Isiah, 
Martin, Wilham G., 
McKinney, Kennith, 



Ormsby, Nicholas, 
Patton, Wilham, 
Ray, James S., 
Rockburk, Benjamin, 
Sameboy, Adam, 
Thomas, Samuel, 
Whaley, James, 
Wharton, Thomas, 
Williams, Ralph, 
Wainscot t, Robert, 
Wharton, Edwin, 
Young, Wilham, 
Gibson, Joseph. 



Lewis's Company 



Henry R. Lewis, Captain 
Robert McClure, Lieutenant. 
Greenlief Morrell, Ensign. 
Alexander Reid, Sergeant. 



John Millhollon, Sergeant. 
John Golliker, Corporal. 
Edmund Kenneda, Corporal. 



privates 



Adams, Westley, 
Anderson, John G., 
Barton, Roger, 
Boyertt, Joseph, 



Berdine, James, 
Estis, John, 
Estis, Joseph, 
Grace, Allen, 



Johnson, James, 
Mitchell, Jonas, 
Smith, Stephen, 
Terrell, Ebar. 



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255 



ROLL OF CAPTAIN BALTZELL'S COMPANY IN THE 
WAR OF 1812 

Pursuant to the call of July 31, 1813 



George Baltzell, Captain. 
Samuel Arnold, Lieutenant. 
James Clark, Ensign. 
George Si'ROULE, First SerReant. 
Rowland Maddison, Second Sergeant. 
\ViLLL\M Mavhall, Third Sergeant. 



William Fox, Fourth Sergeant. 
James Arnold,, First Corporal. 
James Holton, Second Corporal. 
AitcHiBALD Elliott, Third Corporal. 
Nelson R. Jones, Fourth Corporal. 



Anderson, William, 
Benhara, James, 
Bennet, Benjamin, 
Bratton, Adam, 
Calhoun, Henry P., 
Campbell, George, 
Chambers, John D., 
Church, James, 
Fish, F., 



PRIVATES 

Gudgell, Andrew, 
Hampton, James, 
Hulton, Cornelius, 
Lewis, Zachary, 

Matthews, 

Milam, James, 
Miller, William, 
Pitts, Berkin, 
Price, John, 



Redding, Joseph, 
Reece, Thomas, 
Robinson, 



Robinson, James, 
Ruble, John R., 

Tompkins, 

Vance, Isaac, 
Vines, 



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Appendix 



ROLL OF FIELD, STAFF, COMPANY OFFICERS AND 

PRIVATES, KENTUCKY MOUNTED INFANTRY, 

IN THE WAR OF 1812 

Commanded by Colonel Richard M. Johnson 

JOHNSON'S REGIMENT 



Richard M. Johnson, Colonel. 
James Johnson, Lieutenant-Colonel. 
Duval Payne, First Major. 
David Tompson, Second Major. 
James Suggett, Third Major. 
Robert M. Ewing, Surgeon. 
John C. Rich.\rdson, Mate. 
Wilson Coburn, Mate. 
Jeremiah A. Matthews, Mate. 



Benjamin S. Chambers, Quartermaster. 
Jeremiah Kertley, Adjutant. 
Samuel Theobalds, J. Advocate. 
Garrard Wall, F. Master. 
Eli Short, Apt. F. M. 
John Dickerson, Sergt. -Major. 
LuRENCE Sandford, Quartermaster- 
Sergeant. 
J.AMES Johnson, Paymaster. 



Hamilton's Company 



Allen A. H.vmilton, Captain. 
Joseph Bell, First Lieutenant. 
JoHN HoLLiDAY, Second Lieutenant. 
Tho.mas EasTERdav, Third Lieutenant. 
Benjamin Cr.aig, Lieutenant. 
Robert Berry, Ensign. 
Robert S. Dougherty, First Sergeant. 
James Luster, Second Sergeant. 
Joseph Holiday, Third Sergeant. 



Thomas Simpson, First Corporal. 
WiLLi.\M Snell, Second Corporal. 
Dudley Mitchell, Third Corporal. 
William Brow.v, Fourth Corporal. 
JOH.N Baker, Saddler. 
William Bond, Trumpeter. 
William Kerr. Blacksmith. 
John BrumlEy, Farrier. 



Brumley, Alexander, 
Buckhannon, John, 
Baker, Jesse, 
Calbert, Daniel, 
Craig, Hawkins, 
Crawford, James, 
Cronden, James, 
Craig, James, 
Conover, Joseph, 
Craig, Levi, 
Craig, Richard, 
Catterson, Robert, 
Cook, William, 



privates 

Cobb, William, 
Dougherty, James, 
Deen, Robert, 
Evans, Lewis, 
Eliott, William, 
Finley, James, 
Finley, John, 
Gillum, James, 
Hayden, Blan. B., 
Handen, Robert, 
Homes, Thomas, 
Hadden, William, 
Jackson, Alexander, 



Jackson, George, 
Jackson, Hugh, 
Jones, Thomas, 
Kelly, Samuel, 
Linch, Isaac, 
Markham, John, 
Moore, Jesse, 
Madox, Shearwood, 
Markham, William, 
Morgan, WilUam, 
Outhouse, Israel, 
O'Neal, John, 
Pringle, John, 



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257 



Pittell, George, 
Pringle, Samuel, 
Pringle, William, 
Ray, John, 
Ray, Moses, 
Ross, Philip, 
Right, Reason, 
Sanders, Abner, 
Simpson, Abraham, 



Still, Charles, 
Searcy, Francis, 
Short, John, 
Searcy, James, 
Sail, James, 
Swonger, James, 
Sanders, Nathaniel, 
Stewart, Robert, 
Sneed, Samuel C, 

Warfield's Company 



Searcy, Taylor, 
Toon, John, 
Thompson, Samuel, 
Wyant, George, 
Walters, John, 
Wyman, William, 
Whitehead, William, 
Whitehead, Richard, 
Wheat, Nathaniel. 



Benjamin Warfield, Captain. 
HiNLEY, Roberts, First Lieutenant. 
Robert Berry, Ensign. 
Abner DepEW, First Lieutenant. 
Lewis Reddle, Second Lieutenant. 
John Willi.^ms, Third Lieutenant. 
Zachariah J.\meson, First Sergeant. 
Thomas Rodgers, Second Sergeant. 



William Craig, Third Sergeant. 
Joseph Blair, Fourth Sergeant. 
Jacob Stew.\rt, First Corporal. 
Thomas L. M. Justice, Second Corp'l. 
WiLLi.^M Moore, Third Corporal. 
John Jamiso.n, Fourth Corporal. 
John Wells, Artificer. 



Andrew, Mallows, 
Allen, David, 
Allen, WilUam, 
Alexander, James, 
Bullock, Nathan, 
Bell, Thomas, 
Barton, John, 
Bradshaw, George, 
Brockman, William, 
Caldwell, Oliver, 
Caldwell, Robert, 
Colglazier, John, 
Colglazier, Phil, 
Colglazier, David, 
Cox, Richard H., 
Connell, David, 
Craig, Francis, 
Christy, Simeon, 
Duckworth, Wilham, 
Dickey, Thomas, 
Denton, Abraham, 
Duskin, Moses, 
David, Ignation, 



privates 

Evans, Thomas, 
Evans, F'rancis, 
Eve, Milton, 
Ellerson, James, 
Fatton, John, 
Finn, John, 
Focoke, Richard, 
Fay, WiUiam, 
Farrel, James, 
Gamett, James, 
Graves, Reuben, 
Graves, Henry, 
Harron, William, 
Hall, Moses, 
Hall, Elikin, 
Hawkins, Philip, 
Hawkins, Gregory, 
Hugh, Alexander, 
Jamison, William, 
Johnson, George, 
Kirtley, William, 
Lockridge, James, 
Lockridge, .\ndrew. 



Lacy, Levi, 
Lanton, James, 
Larkin, Rogers, 
Mcintosh, James, 
Mosby, Daniel, 
McConn, David, 
Malories, Oba, 
Malories, A. Oba, 
Magoker, John, 
Mcintosh, John, 
Prichards, Alfred, 
Parker, Harvay, 
Poe, Benjamin, 
Priest, Daniel, 
Pebell, John, 
Rogers, James, 
Raynalds, Richard, 
Rogers, Valentine, 
Riddle, James, - ' 
Rector, Hezekiah, 
Ross, Reuben, 
Ross, Jacob, 
Rogers, George, 



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Appendix 



Rogers, John, 
Stewart, R<iy, 
Smith, John, 
Smith, William, 
Smith, David, 
Scott, Muril, 
Shortridge, William, 
Sanders, George, 
Sanders, Haney, 
Saide, Eleford Brison, 
Saide, Simpson, 



Stamper, Richard, 
Sanders, Solomon, 
Steward, Ray, 
Stapp, Major, 
Trumble, William, 
Todd, James L., 
Terrel, George C, 
Tabbot, Pane, 
Tanner, John, 
Thomson, H. D., 
Thomson, Thomas, 

Coleman's Company 



Thompson, Samuel, 
Venkirk, Mat, 
Woodward, John, 
Whitaker, William, 
Wilson, Martin, 
Wilson, James, 
Weeks, Payton, 
Wilson, John, 
Wishart, Aram, 
Wishart, James, 
Woolcut, Justice. 



James Coleman, Captain. 
John McMillin, First Lieutenant. 
Samuel Logan, Second Lieutenant. 
William Clarke, Third Lieutenant. 
Carter Anderson, Ensign. 
HiR.AM Philips, First Sergeant. 
William Lamml, Second Sergeant. 
John Williams, Third Sergeant. 



Thomas Hurd, Fourth Sergeant. 
Peter Lewis, First Corporal. 
John Mc. Dickson, Second Corporal. 
John W. McClEnin, Third Corporal, 
James S.N'ELL, Fourth Corporal. 
Thomas Cummings, Trumpeter. 
Joseph Loan, Saddler. 
John Brownsfield, Blacksmith. 



Anderson, Amos, 
Ashbrook, Andrew, 
Ashesop, Ichabod, 
Anderson, William, 
Angel, William, 
Burke, Abraham, 
Ball, Hugh, 
Bayle, John, 
Brown, James, 
Bell, Listen T., 
Bow, Joseph, 
Bogle, John, 
Burke, Abraham, 
Cummings, Edward, 
Casey, Henry, 
Childen, Harman, 
Crook, John, 
Cleveland, James, 
Cleveland, Micajah, 
Clough, Price, 
Crook, Richard, 



privates 

Clough, Thomas, 
Clough, William, 
Crook, William, 
Casey, William, 
Cummins, William, 
Clough, WiUiam, 
Dudley, Ambrose, 
Depew, George, 
Dickson, James, 
Egner, Andrew, 
Endicott, John, 
Egnew, John, 
Endicott, Joseph, 
Endicott, Joseph, Jr., 
Egnew, Andrew, 
Fielding, William, 
Gowdy, George, 
Gray, James, 
Gowdy, James, 
Glenn, Turner H., 
Guthrie, William, 



Hodge, Charles A,, 
Huston, John, 
Holiday, Joseph, 
Hume, Stripling, 
Holaday, William S., 
Jennings, Clement, 
Johns, David, 
Johns, Jacob, 
Jenkins, John, 
Jones, Isaac, 
Jolas, Samuel, 
Lemmon, John W , 
Laws, Pompy, 
Laner, Reuben, 
Little, William, 
Miller, Aaron, 
Moore, Benjamin, 
Mason, Daniel, 
Mason, Josiah, 
McCarthem, James, 
Mills, Joseph, 



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259 



McClure, Samuel, 
McFarling, Thomas, 
McFarland, William, 
Night, Jacob, 
Newell, Robert, 
Pettet, George, 
Phillips, William, 
Picket, Wilham, 
Rankins, John, 
Rout, Nimrod, 
Scribner, Abraham, 
Satterfield, Clement, 
Slade, Ezekiel, 



Shaver, Frederick, 
Shepherd, George, 
Slaughter, James, 
Sellers, John F., 
Stern, John W., 
Stewart, Jesse, 
Scott, Robert, 
Schooler, Richard, 
Smith, Silas, 
Spotwood, William, 
Turner, Abraham, 
Turner, Isaac, 
Trimble, James, 



Thompson, Robert, 
Theobalds, Samuel, 
Veach, David, 
Vaughan, Isaac, 
Vaughan, John, 
Vandevin, Samuel, 
Wallace, Graham, 
Welch, James H., 
Waltern, John, 
White, John, 
Wyatt, Jesse, 
Woolen, Leonard, 
Woorkman, Richard. 



William M. Rice, Captain. 
Morgan Bryan, First Lieutenant. 
Joseph Thomas, Second Lieutenant. 
M.\TTHEW MiLSEV, Third Lieutenant 
Elisha Scott, Ensign. 
Jonathan ElTis, First Sergeant. 
George Scorr, Second Sergeant. 



Rice's Company 

William McKjnsey, Fourth Sergeant. 
Jacob Meyers, First Corporal. 
Robert Lowden, Second Corporal. 
Benjamin MilEy, Third CoqKiral. 
Benjamin Ruan, Fourth Corporal. 
Bela Cropper, Trumpeter. 



Admere, James, 
Aldridge, John, 
Antle, John, 
Antle, Peter, 
Allen, Peter, 
Banta, Abraham, 
Banta, Andrew, 
Barnes, Caleb, 
Banta, Daniel, 
Bartlett, Edmond, 
Bacy, Elisman, 
Bartlett, Foster, 
Bryant, James, 
Bantee, Jacob, 
Berry, John, 
Brown, Joel, 
Burton, John, 
Boston, Mary, 
Banter, Peter, 
Brown, Richard, 



privates 

Bell, Thomas, 
Boid, William, 
Clark, John, 
Clemeworth, James, 
Clemeworth, John, 
Carnahan, James, 
Conn, Richard, 
Dowdin, James, 
Dunn, Jesse, 
Dawkins, Thomas, 
Elston, John, 
ElHs, William, 
Fairley, Joseph F., 
Franks, Thomas, 
Goods, Richard, 
Gobin, Jose])h, 
Hardin, Daniel, 
Hagland, James, 
Hyatt, Shadrach, 
Huffman, Philip, 



Hitshoe, William, 
Hanna, William, 
Jones, Ebner, 
Johnson, John, 
Jones, Tholeson, 
Jones, Wilham, 
Kelley, Amos, 
Kepheart, Abraham, 
Kepheart, Abraham, 
Kelly, Daniel, 
Kepheart, George, 
Kelly, John, 
Kindall, John, 
Kelly, James, 
Kel, Mosef, 
Kindall, Reason, 
Lowden, .Thomas, 
Mitchell, Andrew, 
McCollcston, David, 
McClane, George, 



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Appendix 



May, Gabriel, 
McGuire, Jesse, 
McClain, Jacob, 
McClain, James, 
McClelland, James, 
McCauIey, James, 
McGuire, Luke, 
Mitchell, Michael M., 
McClelland, Richard, 
Martin, Thomas, 
Moore, William, 
McCrackin, William, 
McClure, William, 
Nevell, Thomas, 
Neal, William, 



Nevell, Stewart, 
Owings, Henry, 
Onan, Peter, 
Parr, Aaron, 
Perry, EUsha, 
Parr, John, 
Penn, Noah, 
Powell, Robert, 
Pope, Reuben, 
Piles, Samuel, 
Poland, William, 
Rice, John, 
Rice, William, 
Scott, Asa, 
Spencer, Caleb, 

Elliston's Company 



Spencer, Joseph, 
Joseph, Levi, 
Smith, Robert, 
Simpson, Shelley, 
Spencer, Walter, 
Tyler, Charles, 
Turner, James, 
Thompson, John, 
Thomasson, Thomas, 
White, David, 
Wooldgriger, Geo. W., 
Wyler, John, 
Warfield, John, 
Woodford, John, 
Wiley, John. 



Jacob Elliston, Captain. 
John B. White, First Lieutenant. 
William McGinnis, Second Lieutenant. 
Leonard Seays, Third Lieutenant. 
Edw.ard Harris, Ensign. 
James Decker, First Sergeant. 
Major M. Johnson, Second Sergeant. 
Richard D. Phillips, Third Sergeant. 



Samuel B. Petty, Fourth Sergeant. 
Henry McKee, First Corporal. 
Hugh McBra\-ers, Second Corporal. 
Newman Barn-es, Third Corporal. 
PlEas.\nt Oliver, Fourth Corporal. 
Joseph Allen, Trumpeter. 
Charles Laughter, Artificer. 



Buntian, John, 
Buntian, James, 
Bryant, Rowleigh, 
Barnes, Zachariah, 
Buntian, Thomas, 
Cox, Ansel, 

Cummings, Alexander, 
Cogshill, Francis, 
Cofiiner, John, 
Case, Joseph, 
Coffiner, Jacob, 
Cogshill, Leonard, 
Cogshill, Magauner, 
Cole, Micajah, 
Cogshill, Matthew, 
Comings, Matthew, 
Cox, Nathaniel, 



privates 

Colquit, Ranson E., 
Cole, Salathiel, 
Duprey, Ebenezer, 
Downey, James, 
Downey, John, 
Frazier, Robert, 
George, Dudley, 
Grabb, John A., 
Gaines, Samuel, 
Hackley, James S., 
Hanks, Pitman, 
Halhs, Robert, 
Holeman, Reuben, 
Joy, Curtis, 
Johnson, Holeman, 
Jerrell, Whitefield, 
Johnson, Isaac, 



Johnson, James, 
Kelley, Henry, 
Lewis, Charles, 
Lillard, Christopher, 
Lightfoot, Goodrich, 
Lillard, Mathew, 
Lightfoot, PhiUp, 
Morris, George, 
Miller, George, 
Miller, John, 
Mulican, John T. 
Miller, Peter, 
Montgomery, Robert, 
Miller, Robert, 
McMinimy, William, 
Natron, Francis, 
Preuett, Joel B., 



Appendix 



261 



Phillips, Solomon, 
Rochells, John, 
Rucker, Robert A., 
Raines, Wilham, 
Ryan, Winston, 
Robinson, WilUam, 



Rice, Joseph, 
vSlate, Bazel, 
Slaughter, Francis, 
Slate, James, 
Slate, Thomas, 

Combs' Company 



Slate, William I., 
Thompson, David, 
Timmismon, William, 
Young, Thomas, 
Young, William. 



Samuel R. Combs, Captain. 
H. P. Thornton, First Lieutenant. 
James H. Hill, Second Lieutenant. 
James M. Cogsw'ELL, Third Lieutenant. 
Joseph Major, First Sergeant. 
William Rout, Second Sergeant. 
Jacob LindsEy, Third Sergeant. 
William D. Hexry, Fourth Sergeant. 



Hen'RV Rush, First Corporal. 
WiLLi.\M Lampton, Second Corporal. 
L.^RKIN Dawson, Third Corporal. 
Richard Awbrav, Fourth Corporal. 
William Winn, Fourth Corporal. 
John H. Combs, Trumpeter. 
Joseph Cockrel, Farrier. 
Joseph W.allace, Artificer. 



Allen, Joseph, 
Aresmith, WilUam, 
Allen, William, 
Bentley, Bailey, 
Baler, Jonathan, 
Baxter, Jesse, 
Boyle, Joseph, 
Browning, James, 
Bums, Jackey, 
Barnes, John, 
Beamblett, John, 
Burnett, John, 
Black, Samuel, 
Bramblett, Henry, 
Chism, Elijah, 
Caldwell, Ephraim, 
Cuberson, Francis, 
Cotton, George, 
Coffer, George, 
Combs, Joseph, 
Combs, John, 
Cormick, Richard, 
Chism, Nathaniel, 
Corbin, Silas, 
Christian, William, 
Call, William, 



Corbin, Zachariah, 
Duckworth, Ezekiel, 
Duckerson, John, 
Eustis, Robert, 
Edwards, William, 
Foster, Isaac, 
Foster, Moses, 
Foster, Tinsley, 
Foster, William, 
Gordon, Benjamin, 
Griffin, Francis, 
Gist, James, 
Graham, Joseph W., 
Grimes, John A., 
Gist, Mordecai, 
Henry, Andrew, 
HazUngs, Charles, 
Hendley, Elkaaa, 
Henry, EUsha, 
Haggin, George, 
Howard, George S., 
Hackey, Hightown, 
Haley, John, 
Huston, Matthew, 
Hardwick, Robert, 
Herrington, Samuel, 



Heydon, Samuel, 
Howard, Samuel U., 
Hoggin, William, 
Hardwick, Wilham, 
Halsel, William, 
Hand, Thomas, 
Jones, John, Sr., 
Jones, John, Jr., 
Jamison, John, 
Johnson, Isaac, 

Kenney, Alexander R. 

Latham, James, 

Lampton, William, 

Lock, WilUam F., 

Mitchell, Daniel, 

Murr, EUptet, 

McDoweU, George, 

McGunnigal, John, 

Mure, Jeremiah, 

McCall, John, 

Major, John, 

Moore, John, 

Mace, Jobe, 

McClure, Mathew, 

Major, Oliver, 

McFarine, Robert, 



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Mure, Richard, 
Mure, Robert, 
Mitchell, Robert, 
Nelson, Graham, 
Nicholas, Robert, 
Owens, Horatio, 
Owens, Jonathan, 
Owens, Samuel, 
Pasley, John, 
Rodgers, Henry, 
Ripper, James, 
Roper, James, 
Rolston, John, 



Rollins, Owen, 
Rinard, Samuel, 
Rodgers, Thomas, 
Southerland, Bailey, 
Sherwood, Edward, 
Southerland, Howard, 
Southerland, John, 
Southerland, James, 
Sherwood, Moses, 
Spurr, Richard, 
Short, Pleasant, 
Talbot, Benjamin, 
Tangier, George, 



Talbot, John, 
Tinsley, William, 
Utty, Royal, 
Utterback, Reuben, 
Wills, Alexander, 
Wallace, Andrew, 
Welch, John, 
Wyatt, James, 
Winn, James, 
Wyatt, Mordecai, 
Wilson, Samuel, 
Wier, W'illiam, 
Wood, Peter. 



Davidson's Company 



James Davidson, Captain. 
John Lapslev, First Lieutenant. 
Hugh W. McKeE, Second Lieutenant. 
Wier Tilford, Third Lieutenant. 
Robert G. Foster, Ensign. 
Francis Clory, First Sergeant. 
Andrew LeepER, Second Sergeant. 
William Hill, Third Sergeant. 



Absalom McKinsev, Fourth Sergeant 
Samuel Dodds, First Corporal. 
James Hall, Second Corporal. 
Gabriel Hugh, Third Corporal. 
Thomas Cl-^^rk, Fourth Corporal. 
John Run.\lds, Trumpeter. 
JON.ATH.\N Levi, Farrier. 



Astall, John, 
Allen, Samuel, 
Allen, Thomas, 
Allen, Churchwell, 
Brown, Bailey, 
Baley, Edward, 
Brown, Francis, 
Bourne, Francis, 
Banton, George W., 
Blackenship, John, 
Banks, Jared, 
Brown, Joshua, 
Banks, Lucia, 
Banker, Richard, 
Harnett, Robert, 
Boswell, Thomas, 
Bernett, William, 
Berry, William, 
Clear, George, 



PRIVATES 

Cawley, Samuel, 
demons, Wilson, 
Collins, William, 
Dunwiddie, David C, 
Dunwiddie, George, 
Davidson, George, 
Davis, John, 
Dunwiddie, John, 
Denton, William, 
Edwards, Griffin, 
Edwards, Peter, 
Easthan, Zachariah, 
Fancy, James, 
Feland, James, 
Flint, Richard, 
Flint, Samuel, 
Farrel, William, 
Fitzpatrick, William, 
Garter, Dennis, 



Grimes, Elijah, 
Gillett, John S., 
Gilmore, James, 
Gilmore, Robert, 
Giles, Thomas, 
Hall, Andrew, 
Hutchings, Baird, 
Hughs, Frank, 
Hall, George, 
Harvey, James, 
Hughs, John, 
Homes, Jacob, 
Hall, John B., 
Hall, John, 
Hutchings, Lemuel, 
Hodge, Moses, 
Hutchings, Parks, 
Humphrey, William, 
Henderson, William, 



Appendix 



263 



Homes, Solas, 
January, John, 
King, David, 
Logan, Benjamin, 
Logan, David, 
Leeper, George, 
Lewis, John, 
Leach, Matthew, 
Loid, WiUiam F., 
Legg, WiUiam, 
Lampton, Wilham, 
Lapsley, William, 
Law, Thomas, 
McKee, Gipson, 
May, George, 
McCoUiston, George, 
Milner, John, 
McKee, James, 
Martin, Nicholas, 
McDonald, Story, 
McGrenwood, William, 
McCoon, William, 
Moore, Alexander, 
Norville, Lepscombe, 
Power, Andrew L., 



Preses, Bailey, 
Perrel, Edward, 
Panton, George, 
Pearson, James, 
Paw, Joseph, 
Patter, Jesse, 
Preston, John, 
Pinor, John, 
Pearson, Jeremiah, 
Piirnel, Lemuel, 
Potter, Lemuel, 
Potter, Thomas, 
Paw, William, 
Pruce, Robert, 
Right, James, 
Rose, John, 
Read, Jacob, 
Runnalds, Peter, 
Ridgeway, Samuel, 
Rentford, James, 
Shannon, Absalom, 
Smith, Ephraira, 
Shackelford, Edward, 
Scott, George, 

Matson's Company 



Sharp, Henry, 
Stevenson, James, 
Sellors, John, 
Sayers, John, 
Shanks, James, 
Shclton, Peter, 
Sanders, Stephen, 
Standford, Perry, 
Sanders, Stevenson, 
Thaylewood, Joseph, 
Thuman, Joseph, 
Tarrant, James, 
Vutton, Aaron, 
Vautress, Jacob, 
Vauters, Aaron, 
Vulson, Thomas, 
Wiloy, George W., 
Wood, John S., 
Wood, Abraham, 
Wilson, Martin, 
Williamson, Robert, 
West, WiUiam, 
Woolfskill, William, 
Whitley, William. 



Richard Matson, Captain. 
Robert Scroggins, First Lieutenant. 
■ William McHatton, Second Lieut. 
R.\LPH Jacobv, Third Lieutenant. 
John Brice, Ensign. 
Thomas Stark, First Sergeant. 
J.\MES St.\rk, Second Sergeant. 
Thomas Delaney, Third Sergeant. 
William Kelly, Fourth Sergeant. 



Thomas Buckhannon, First Corporal 
James LafferTv, Second Corporal. 
John Vanderb.\ck, Third Corporal. 
John Griggs, Fourth Corporal. 
William B. Kincade, Trumpeter. 
William F. P.\ge, Saddler. 
Thomas Funnell, H. Farrier. 
Adam Kokindaffer, Artificer. 



Armstrong, Robert, 
Burk, Richard, 
Bosel, Henson, 
Brice, William, 
Butler, Ichabod, 
Biggs, William, 
Berry, Thomas, 



privates 

Barlow, Thomas, 
Bridges, Henry, 
Bigers, James, 
Baley, John, 
Boon, William, 
Case, Jo,scph, 
Collins, Thomas, 



Cox, Charles, 
Campbell, Alexander, 
Cannon, Newton, 
Campbell, Thomas, 
Currey, William, 
Chiles, Joseph, 
Cropper, Solomon, 



264 



Appendix 



Delany, Abner, 
Davis, Ingram, 
Duncan, Jeremiah, 
Devers, Johnson, 
Edmonson, William, 
Ewings, Hugh, 
Eades, Horatio, 
Ford, John, 
Foster, Nathaniel, 
Foster, John, 
Ferguson, William, 
Ferguson, John, 
Fagans, Jarard, 
Golson, James I., 
Golson, John B., 
Gray, W'illiam, 
Givers, Matthew, 
Grant, John, 
Galaway, Samuel, 
Gallaway, Eliheigh, 
Harris, Daniel, 
Haines, Nathaniel, 
Hardester, Samuel, 
Hill, Nathaniel, 
Hord, EUas, 



Haines, Jonathan, 
Jones, Wilham, 
Jones, Thomas, 
Jessup, William, 
Jones, Richard, 
Kincaid, William, 
Laten, James, 
Laws, William, 
Martin, William, 
Malary, William, 
Malary, Roger, 
McDowel, Samuel, 
McKinsey, John, 
McKinsey, David, 
McHatten, Samuel, 
McHatten, Alexander, 
Mills, Eulises, 
Morris, Caleb, 
Malary, Henry, 
Miller, John, 
O'Neal, John, 
Patterson, William, 
Parsel, John, 
Palmer, Thomas, 
Rule, James, 



Richardson, Robert, 
Richardson, Jeremiah, 
Richardson, James, 
Runalds, John, 
Ruby, Henry, 
Smith, John, 
Sydner, Jacob, 
Scroggin, John, 
Scroggin, Joseph, 
Sharpshire, Jeremiah, 
Slaughter, Edgecomb, 
Spears, Abraham, 
Smith, George A., 
Schooler, John, 
Srader, Coonrod, 
Scrivi, Daniel, 
Smith, John R., 
Stevenson, Reuben, 
Stevenson, Zachariah, 
Smith, William, 
Wilson, Jesse, 
'ft'alker, Samuel, 
Wright, John, 
Winkfield, Enoch. 



McAfee's Company 



Robert B. McAfee, Captain. 
John R. Cardwell, First Lieutenant. 
David Lillard, Second Lieutenant. 
William Sharp, Third Lieutenant. 
David Adams, Ensign. 
James BrEcki.N'RIDGE, First Sergeant. 
John Sprixgate, First Sergeant. 
Samuel Crawford, .Second Sergeant. 



Mathias Ho.mrav, Third Sergeant. 
John Armstrong, Fourth Sergeant. 
Simeon Moore, First Corporal. 
Stephen Blithe, Second Corporal. 
John L. McGinnis, Third Corporal. 
IsA.\c Rynerson, Fourth Corpora!. 
William CardwELL, Trumpeter. 
Washington, Barnes, Trumpeter. 



Atkinson, John, 

Alexander, James D,, 

Agains, Thomas, 

Armstrong, William, 

Adams, William, 

Agains, WiUiam, 

Armstrong, William, Jr., Bohon, Joseph, 



PRIVATES 

Brine, Churchwell, 
Bright, David, 
Barns, Edmund, 
Bohon, George, 
Barnes, Henry, 
Bohnger, John, 



Borders, Jacob, 
Boyle, John, 
Barton, John, 
Brine, James, 
Bucks, John, 
Baker, James, 
Burton, John, 



Appendix 



265 



Booker, Nicholas, 
Barnes, Richard, 
Burton, Samuel, 
Bornian, William, 
Corn, Bazil, 
Cochran, George, 
Cunningham, Henry, 
Cardwell, John, 
Coulter, Mark, 
Grains, Nathaniel, 
Curry, Thomas, 
Cravrford, Thomas, 
Currens, William, 
Davis, Allen, 
Divine, Andrew, 
Davis, Amos, 
Divine, David, 
Davis, George, 
Devine, George, 
Debann, George, 
Dikey, Hays, 
Davis, John S., 
Dobson, John, 
Divine, Thomas H., 
Deen, John L., 
Davis, James, 
Denny, John, 
Denny, Joseph, 
Duff, WiUiam, 
Davis, John, 
Ewing, Samuel, 
Franklin, Claiboume, 
Forsythe, Robert, 
Guthrice, James, 
Gutton, Levi, 
Gutheric, Robert, 
Green, Samuel, 
Green, Thomas, 
Galloway, Daniel, 
Haines, Daniel, 
Howard, Eppy, 
Hale, Joseph, 



Hackley, I,ott, 
Horn, Michael, 
Hughes, Reuben, 
Hope, Richard, 
Hughes, Stephen, 
Hall, Thomas, 
Hawkins, James, 
Halligan, John, 
Jordan, John, 
Jones, Jesse, 
Kelly, Joseph, 
Little, Joseph, 
Lamb, John, 
Lawson, Joshua, 
Little, John, 
Lawson, James, 
Lockhart, Lewis, Sr., 
Lockhart, Lewis, Jr.. 
Lockhart, Richard, 
Lions, Stephen, 
Lions, Stephen, Jr., 
Logan, Thomas, 
Lewis, Thomas, 
Lewis, William, 
Lillard, Christopher, 
McFatredge, Andrew, 
McDonald, Clement, 
McGee, David, 
Myers, George, 
McAfee, George, 
Mclntire, John, 
McGinnis, John, 
Miller, Jacob, 
McRettrick, James, 
McGee, Joseph, 
McGee, John, 
McAfee, James, 
Mason, James, 
Morrison, Nathaniel S., 
McRettrick, Robert, 
McGinnis, Thomas B., 
McClure, WilUam, 



Morris, William, 
Mann, Thomas, 
Noel, Dudley, 
Perry, Daniel, 
Philips, George, 
Parish, Nicholas, 
Powers, Richard, 
Poulter, William, 
Rennick, Robert, 
Ragan, Abner, 
Rice, .Ander.son, 
Roberts, John, 
Rylcy, Jonathan, 
Rinehart, Samuel, 
Riley, WiUiam, 
Roberts, William, 
Riley, Jena, 
Sail, Clayton, 
Scott, David, 
Smith, John, 
Smith, James, 
Sennel, John, 
Sportsman, James, 
Sorter, John, 
Smith, John, 
Sandifee, Lewis, 
Sinnett, Richard, 
Smithey, Robert, 
Sylva, Samuel, 
Steen, Frederick, 
Thompson, Andrew, 
Vincent, Charles, 
\"oris, John, 
Vandalor, John, 
Vislet, Sinclair, 
Wingate, Henry, 
Wigham, John, 
Woods, Joseph, 
Wells, John, 
Williams, Martin, 
Voung, John, 
Young, Nirarod. 



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Appendix 



Stucker's Company 



\ 



Jacob Stucker, Captain. 
Thomas Story, First Lieutenant. 
WiLLi-VM M.vssiE, Second Lieutenant 
Andrew Johxso.x, Third Lieutenant. 
Turner Branham, Ensign. 
John L Johnson, First Sergeant. 
Gabriel Long, Second Sergeant. 
Joel Harding, Third Sergeant. 
Edgecomb Suggett, Fourth Sergeant. 



Thomas Bl.vckbourn, First CorporaL 
N-\THANIEL Gray, Second Corporal. 
S.«IUEL Benton, Third CorporaL 
John Herndon, Fourth CorporaL 
Thomas Suggett, Trumpeter. 
James Long, Farrier. 
George C. Branh.vm, Blacksmith. 
Daniel Stephenson, Saddler. 



Anderson, Presty, 
Bates, Andrew, 
Barlow, Hartecy, 
Barkley, Thomas, 
Berry, Henry, 
Bonsen, Solomon, 
Bowen, Solomon, 
Bourbage, Robert, 
Bradley, William, 
Bradley, Valentine, 
Branham, George, 
Branham, William, 
Butler, James, 
Butler, Thomas, 
Campbell, William, 
Coppage, Thomas, 
Davis, John, 

Davis, 

Dare, Isaac, 
Dehaven, Isaac, 
Dehaven, Jacob, 
Denney, Fielding, 
Dougherty, John, 
Downing, John, 
Duncan, John, 
Ealy, Edward, 
Ealy, Henry, 
Fales, William, 
Ficklin, John H., 
Foster, Isaac, 
Foster, Robert, 
Foster, Thomas. 



privates 

Gaines, James, 
Garth, Thomas, 
Gibbs, Robert, 
Godard, Francis, 
Grant, John, 
Grant, James, 
Grant, Robert, 
Gray, John D., 
Hall, William, 
Harwood, James, 
Herndon, John S., 
Holeman, Jacob H., 
Hoover, Adam, 
Hughey, Samuel, 
Hurst, James, 
Johns, Jonathan, 
Johnson, Edward, 
Johnson, Henry, 
Johnson, Joel, 
Johnson, James, 
Johnson, William, 
Keene, John, 
Kelly, Daniel, 
Lucas, Richard, 
Mansfield, John L., 
Martin, Benjamin, 
McConathy, James, 
McMurda, Robert, 
Montgomery, Kenney, 
Mountjoy, Charles, 
Offett, Hugh, 
Osbourne, John, 



Payne, Robert, 
Pearson, Robert, 
Peak, Spencer, 
Pratt, John, 
Reading, Joseph, 
Rittenhouse, Adam, 
Sanders, Valentine. 
Scruggs, William, 
Shannon, William, 
Shannon, Ale.xander, 
Shealy, Singleton, 
Snowvanier, Christopher, 
Stapp, Eli, 
Sutfin, Gilbert, 
Sutton, James W., 
Smith, John, 
Stapp, Milton, 
Shelton, Thomas, 
Shell, Willis, 
Sutton, William P., 
Stevenson, William, 
Stucker, James, 
Theobalds, James, 
Thompson, Peter, 
Thompson, Robert, 
Thomason, Richard, 
True, Simeon, 
Wolf, Coonrad, 
Wolf, Jesse, 
Webb, William S., 
Williams, William, 
Yancy, Thomas. 



Appendix 



267 



Berry's Company 



Robert Berry, Captain. 

Henley, Roberts, First Lieutenant. 



J.\MEs Slott, Ensign. 
\Vii,i.i.\M Armstrong, Sergeant. 



Archer, Sampson, 
Anderson, Vencent, 
Bradsliaw, George, 
Bright, WilUam, 
Brown, Ale.xander, 
Caldwell, John, 
Carey, James, 
Caseady, Jeremiah, 
Caldwell, James, 
Dici, Abner, 
Evans, John, 
Ferguson, Henry, 
Fulton, John, 
Gellepsie, James, 
Howard, Madison, 
Hughes, W'illiam, 
Hughes, Isaac, 
Hughes, ToUiver, 
Hopkins, Joslin, 
Hace, Ellihu, 
Hace, Moses, 



Irvin, John, 
Ishniael, John, 
Lockridge, William, 
Lockridge, John, 
Myers, Peter, 
Myers, John, 
McDowell, Mordecai, 
McDonald, Hugh, 
McDonald, Oliver, 
McDonald, William, 
Murphy, James, 
Myers, Daniel, 
Myers, David, 
Maxwell, Grace, 
McClure, Lave, 
McMahan, Robert, 
McCoy, James, 
McCown, David, •--' 
Oliver, Archy, 
Poe, Benjamin, 
Payne, William, 

Reading's Company 



Ray, George, 
Richards, Randolf, 
Seveynuls, Edward, 
Stevenson, James, 
Stevenson, WiUiam, 
Williams, William, 
Waddle, James, 
Waddle, Ora, 
Denton, Abraham, 
Wells, John, 
Colder, John, 
Farrel, Jame.s, 
Sanders, Sebencvin, 
Dampear, Henry, 
Wheeler, Joshua, 
Caldwell, James, 
Wier, Joseph, 
Hugh, Alexander, 
Westhart, James, 
Wishard, James. 



Benjamin Br.\nh.«i, Captain. 
John W. Reading, Captain. 
William Griffith, First Lieutenant. 
William Mosby, Ensign. 



Abraham W.vrE, First Sergeant. 
James Bentley, Second Sergeant. 
Bradford, Stribling, Third Sergeant. 
Louis Dreweard, Fourth Sergeant. 



Bradford, Simeon, 
Boid, John, 
Bates, Joseph, 
Branham, James, 
Birts, Wilhani, 
Bruno, John B., 
Crempayt, Daniel, 
Collins, Richard, 
Cave, John, 
Cremer, John, 



PRIVATES 

Davis, Daniel, 
Dickerson, John, 
Dingham, Daniel, 
Dreward, Neni, 
Elain, Joseph, 
Ewing, Alexander, 
Faven, John, 
Freeman, Samuel, 
Grant, James, 
Greenup, vSamuel, 



Hoover, Adam, 
Heart, Andrew, 
Johnson, Lewey, 
Kirtley, William, 
Knaggs, James, 
Lemon, John, 
Landon, Daniel, 
Lafountain, Ant wain, 
Labrook, Joseph, 
Larangc, Antwain, 



268 



Appendix 



Momeni, Antwain, 
Momeni, Peter, 
Menard, John, 
Neai, Miner, 
Osborn, John, 
Osborn, Joseph, 
Pratt, William, 
Peek, Hezekiah, 
Pluminer, Joseph, 
Pettell, William, 



Peter, William, 
Payne, John, 
Ruland, John, 
Robb, Thomas, 
Robb, James, 
Robine, Lewis, 
Scraggs, John, 
Sebery, John, 
Sandford, Lawrence, 
Smith, John, 



Senture, Antwain, 
Spencer, John, 
Tarlton, John, 
Tarlton, Ralph B., 
Taylor, Joseph, 
Valicate, Josejjh, 
Valicate, John B., 
Wood, Benjamin, 
Walker, James B. 



Church's Company 



William Church, Captain. 
John Hughev, First Lieutenant. 
James Sterman, Ensign. 
Israel Jackson, First Sergeant. 
Joseph Mocksley, Second Sergeant. 



James McCleland, Third Sergeant. 
Rice Oliver, First Corporal. 
William Stevenson, Trumpeter. 
Moses Clinton, Farrier. 



Brown, John, 
Barkett, Martin, 
Barlow, Thomas, 
Barlow, Thomas H., 
CUnton, Jacob, 
Carter, John, 
Cooper, Samuel, 
Clemon, WiUiam, 
Edgecomb, Samuel, 
Gatewood, Larkin, 
Hord, Elias, 
Hancock, Joel, 
Hook, James, 



PRIVATES 

Hood, Moses B., 
Hatten, Sanders, 
Haden, Thomas, 
Hutter, WilUam, 
Laytin, James, 
Morse, James, 
Moxley, William, 
Miller, Wilham, 
Orr, John, 
Pullian, Blan. B., 
Prewit, Lewis, 
Ritenhouse, Adam, 
Rucker, John, 



Reading, Samuel, 
Richardson, John C, 
Suttenhill, James B., 
Sacery, John C, 
Still, James, 
Stevenson, Reuben, 
Sharp, WilUam, 
Satterwhite, Walker, 
Tuker, Davis O. W., 
Taylor, John, 
Thornton, Toliver, 
Wilson, Alexander, 
Wirelv, Richard. 



Payne's Company 



John Pavne, Captain. 
James W. Coburn, First Lieutenant. 
John T. P.\rker, Second Lieutenant. 
J.\mEs Ellis, Third Lieutenant. 
John R. Chitwood, First Sergeant. 
Beverly StubblEfield, Second Sergt. 
Joseph Buckley, Third Sergeant. 
James Artus, Fourth Sergeant. 



William T. Talliaferro, First Corp'l. 
William Pepper, Second Corporal. 
Mic.vjAH Bland, Third Corporal. 
William P. Thomas, ^Fourth Corporal. 
Jonathan Stout, Farrier. 
David Hickman, Saddler. 
Sennet Triplett, Blacksmith. 



Appendix 



269 



Bradford, Thomas H., 
Bryant, David, 
Colerich, Charles, 
Colnirn, Wilson, 
Clearney, WilHam, 
Cook, Littleton, 
Chafant, Francis, 
Carson, Samuel, 
Davidson, Joseph, 
Donavan, Gilbert, 
Elliott, Elijah, 
Evans, Harry, 
Fox, Clairbome, 



Hord, Edward, 
Hord, Thomas, 
Harrison, Thomas, 
Howell, Jonathan, 
Halbert, Kathan, 
I<ewis, William, 
Mitchell, Richard, 
Morsford, James, 
Murray, David, 
Morris, Joseph, 
Norris, John, 
Newland, Joel, 
Nelson, William, 



Osborn, Morgan, 
Perkins, Isaac, 
Pickett, James, 
Parker, J avis, 
Powers, Charles, 
Parker, Garland, 
Stephens, Lewis, 
Thomas, James, 
Thomas, Layton, 
Thompson, Andrew, 
Tucker, John, 
Wilson, Augustus A. C. 



INDEX 



PACK 

Adair, John 125 

Allen, James 128 

Americans in Canada 57 

Americans cross the Thames 60 

Americans proclaim " Remember the Raisin! " as they rush to battle .... 78 

Appendi.x '99 

Army as organized in 1813 " 

Artus, James 203 

Arranging troops for battle ^3 

Barbour, Pliilip M^ 

Barry, William T '35 

Battlefield chosen by British ^ i 

Battle of Thames, Kentuckians in G i 

Brigades and Divisions of Kentuckians 4 ' 

British oppression in the United Stales ~ 

British reported in order of battle less than a mile ahead 61 

British arms captured 58 

British opinion of United States ' 

Burial of dead friends and foes 9" 

Butler, Richard '77 

Calloway, John '•♦^ 

Calloway's words to his men 74 

Caldwell, Samuel ' "■♦ 

Caldwell's brigade faces swamp ^3 

Causes of War of 1S12 ■* 

Chambers, Benjamin '79 

Chiles, David '^^ 

Crittenden, John J '•* 

Crockett, Anthony ' "* 

Dudley's defeat at Fort Meigs ^^ 

Davenport, Richard ^ 

Declaration of war in 1 8 1 2 7 

, 118 

Desha, Joseph 

Donaldson, John ■*" 



272 Index 



PAGE 



Early victories and defeats 12 

Emmon's account of the pursuit of Proctor not true 97 

Eve of battle 5^ 

Evving, Young i56 

First campaign of the war not successful 10 

Fleming, John j,. 

Forlorn Hope g j 

Frenchtowu, battle and victory 18 

Harrison, William Henry 121 

Harmony between Harrison and Shelby 4 . 

Hatfield, Samuel 20^ 

Henry, William j j 5 

Heroes of the Thames' battle no 

Horses left at Portage River 4 r 

Johnson, Richard M jgy 

Johnson's regiment march from Fort Meigs to River Raisin 52 

Johnson's men bury skeletons at River Raisin 53 

Johnson's regiment march for Canada , 54 

Johnson's training of his regiment 54 

Johnson's regiment in two battalions charge the enemy 75 

Johnson's plan of attack adopted by Harrison 65 

Johnson's cavalry dismount and fight afoot 86 

Johnson's cavalry carry everything before them 78 

Johnson, James J45 

Kentuckians sent to river Raisin 17 

Kentuckians in battle of the Thames 209 

King, John Edward 123 

Kind of men who enlisted under Governor Shelby's call 15 

King's brigade next to Trotter's 62 

Madison's manifesto 3 

McDowell, John 15, 

Massacre after defeat at the River Raisin 24 

March of Americans in Canada 57 

McAfee, Robert B 172 

Mountjoy, William 154 

Naval victory on Lake Erie 49 

Norris, John 20^ 

Officers and privates in battle of the Thames 211 



Index 273 



PAGE 

Organization of army in 18 13 11 

Order against depredations on enemy's property 4S 

Payne, John '74 

Payne, DeVall 171 

Perry, Oliver Hazard i99 

Plan of battle changed at the last moment 73 

Position of Americans and British just before the battle 6g 

Prisoners, boats, and arms captured 59 

Proctor flees from the fight 79 

Proctor's baggage captured 101 

Proctor pursued by Payne °o 

Proctor's successful flight i°o 

Regiments of Kentuckians 3^ 

Reinterred at River Raisin i o^ 

" Remember the Raisin!" the American battk'-cry 7^ 

Renick, Henry '5° 

River Raisin battle and defeat 20 

Shelby, Isaac " ' 

Shelby and Harrison in harmony 44 

Simrall, James *58 

Smith, John Speed '76 

States for and against the war ^ 

Suggett, James ^^^ 

Taliaferro, William T ^°5 

Taul, Micah ^^' 

Tecumseh 

Tecumseh killed and Johnson wounded ^7 

Tecumseh's death ends the battle ^^ 

Tecumseh's death and burial 9^ 

Thames battle, Kentuckians in 2°9 

Trotter, George '^^ 

Trotter's Brigade given front ' 

Troops move from Portage River to Canada 4^ 

20 x 
Tucker, John 

United States as estimated by British * 

Victory and return home 

Victories on the sea 

Vote in Congress for and against war 9 



274 Index 



PAGE 



Walker, George 137 

Walk-in-the-water deserted British 58 

War declared ini8i2 7 

Whitley, William 142 

Wickliffe, Charles 130 

Williams, William 151 

Winchester in command of Kentucky troops 17 

Younglove, E^ra 203 



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